Show HN: The easiest way to run shell commands in plain English (no app needed)

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3 months ago

Sometimes I want to run a shell command but don't remember the exact syntax. There are apps that aim to resolve that, as well as AI integrations into shells (like iTerm).

I thought there have to be an easier way to achieve this. And it turns out, there is (at least on zsh / macOS). It's just a one-liner prompt and an alias command to add to your .zshrc. After that, '@ run ffmpeg to convert my.mov to mp4' will be converted to the actual command, ready to press Enter.

An interesting side effect is that your '@ whatever' commands become a part of the shell history, so you can rerun them again as regular shell commands.

The entire repo above is simply a README. Just point Claude Code to it and it will install it for you.