[HN Gopher] Show HN: Zev - Remember (or discover) terminal commands
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Show HN: Zev - Remember (or discover) terminal commands
Author : dtnewman
Score : 49 points
Date : 2025-04-24 16:33 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| 0x696C6961 wrote:
| I really like how it gives you multiple options to choose from.
| I've been using https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd
| dtnewman wrote:
| Thanks! My main issue is that i'm lazy and although i often
| know approximately what i want i don't want to type a lot of
| words to describe it exactly. For example writing `zev 'show
| disk usage'` is somewhat ambiguous. Am i talking about my
| current folder or the harddrive? My idea was that rather than
| typing out what I want explicitly, i want to type the minimum
| amount and then just select the best of available options.
| submeta wrote:
| Nice! I use a combination of an endless bash (zsh) history with
| timestamps that I navigate via fzf and ctr+r and comments I
| occasionally add to commands via # at the end followed by my
| annotation so that I can rediscover the command.
|
| I do this ever since I switched to a Mac in 2015 and my history
| has over 60,000 lines. So that's basically my knowledge base :)
|
| But your project looks nice. Will check out.
| afefers wrote:
| Can you explain how you achieve this?
| import wrote:
| Not op but you need fzf and you need to increase the history
| size of your bash/ssh whatever
|
| https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
| reddit_clone wrote:
| Exactly my setup including the #tag's. It is my second brain.
|
| What I love about this is the fzf's fuzzy narrow down. You
| don't have to start at the beginning of command, you don't have
| to worry about exact spelling. Just a few snippets you
| remember, it will narrow it down really fast.
|
| I use the same fuzzy search narrow downs in Emacs.
|
| I miss it everywhere else.
| chrisco23 wrote:
| I'm trying to get this to work with ollama. I'm on Arch Linux,
| fish shell, new to ollama, and only very rarely used pipx. I get:
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| raise ValueError("OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set.
| Try running `zev --setup`.") ValueError: OPENAI_BASE_URL and
| OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`
|
| even when I run (for example) set -x ZEV_USE_OLLAMA 1; zev 'show
| all files and all permissions'
| dtnewman wrote:
| creator here. It pulls env variables from a file in your
| appstorage directory. I need to change this in a future release
| to make it cleaner, since I don't think i like it intermingling
| with env variables.
|
| That said, did you run `zev --setup`?
| dtnewman wrote:
| btw, feel free to open an issue on github :)
| regnull wrote:
| Somewhat related, here's a little project I've done with LLM:
| https://github.com/regnull/how.sh
|
| It uses locally hosted (or remote) LLMs to create and execute
| shell commands that you describe. You can go as far as writing
| "shell scripts" in natural language.
| arjie wrote:
| I don't like most of these commands because they just execute.
| This one is nice because it will be in your history. The current
| trick I use is to use copilot.vim at the command line. It
| naturally fits into my flow.
|
| Recently some of my friends reported that it just wants to do
| comments and I've noticed that it actually biases towards that
| nowadays, so I start it with something to get it kicked off.
|
| I've been managing to try to figure out what in the prompt makes
| it like that, but for the moment that little workaround gives me
| both the comment and the command in my history so it's easier to
| r-i-search for it.
|
| https://x.com/arjie/status/1575201117595926530
|
| You just set up copilot for neovim normally and set it as your
| EDITOR.
| https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/AI_Completion_In_The...
| wapxmas wrote:
| how do I install it with pip? It requires to be in virtual
| environment. (
| trallnag wrote:
| Use something like pipx or uv
| dtnewman wrote:
| it should run outside of a virtual env and is intended to be
| installed locally. That said, it currently has too many
| dependencies (IMO) and i'm working on cutting them down to
| avoid conflicts.
| AvieDeckard wrote:
| Your gif in your README features a prompt asking to "show all
| files in this directory" but the 'ls -lh' returned and selected
| in the demo gif does not show all files, just the ones that
| aren't hidden. I'd have chosen a more accurate interaction for
| the demo.
| imzadi wrote:
| Hi Zev!
| latchkey wrote:
| Why not https://docs.atuin.sh/?
| dtnewman wrote:
| different use case. atuin is for past commands, whereas this
| uses an LLM to give you options for commands.
| latchkey wrote:
| Feels like this should be an extension to atuin instead of a
| separate tool.
| anamexis wrote:
| Why? Besides both involving terminal commands, they serve
| very different purposes.
| arp242 wrote:
| Named after Zev from the film _Remember_? A few years back I
| wrote a Vim plugin to remember things with the same name :-)
| dtnewman wrote:
| ha, no, just a coincidence. Named after someone i know named
| Zev. But chose it because it's short and not taken on Pypi
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