Sharing my ShellGPT Aliases/Functions for Bash and Zsh

[WolframRavenwolf]

I use ShellGPT daily but it could be more user-friendly (can't remember all the options), so I've created some ShellGPT Aliases/Functions for Bash and Zsh to make it much easier (i. e. intuitive) to use. I'm sharing them here with other users, and if you'd like to integrate or adapt them into ShellGPT itself, @TheR1D, I'd be happy to contribute this.

Setup

Just put the contents of this gist into your ~/.bash_aliases or ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/aliases.zsh or any other location where you keep your shell aliases/functions. Log out and back in or source the aliases file to load them, as usual.

Features

The most important features are the shortcut functions - they're just a letter and a colon (so super easy to type, and no conflict with existing commands):

• q: chat ("query")
• s: shell
• d: describe-shell
• c: code

Use uppercase letters for a bigger and better (and more expensive) model, switching from GPT-3.5 (pre-v1.0) or GPT-4-Turbo (v1.0) to GPT-4. Double uppercase letters are supposed to expand context by switching to GPT-4-32K (although that model isn't available to me right now?).

If you don't append your input to the shortcut, it will open REPL mode, so you see the chat history and get an interactive session.

It keeps a chat cache for each letter individually, so you can do follow-up questions and freely switch between command and REPL modes.

When you follow the shortcut with a minus/dash, it clears the chat cache of only that function (chat/shell/describe/code). Double minuses/dashes clear the request cache. Triple minuses/dashes clear both caches (the chat cache of only that function and the shared request cache).

Besides these main functions, there are also a bunch of aliases like sgpt-chat for sgpt --repl chat, but I rarely use those as the letter shortcut functions explained above are so much more useful. There are also clear commands, and sgpt-clear-chats could be useful when you want to clear all chat histories at once, as the letter shortcuts only clear their own chat history.

Also of note is that the cache paths are taken from the .sgptrc config file, so it works with custom paths as well. I prefer my caches to be inside my own home directory's .cache folder instead of the system-wide /tmp folder (and actually think that should be the standard, following the XDG Base Directory Specification and would be more organized and secure that way – but that's just a suggestion).

Examples

Here are the same examples from the Usage section of the README, using my shell aliases/functions instead:

# Simple queries
q: nginx default config file location
Q: mass of sun # using GPT-4
QQ: 1 hour and 30 minutes to seconds # using GPT-4-32K

# Summarization and analyzing
git diff | q: Generate git commit message, for my changes
docker logs -n 20 container_name | Q: check logs, find errors, provide possible solutions # using GPT-4

# Shell commands
s: make all files in current directory read only
S: update my system # using GPT-4
cat data.json | s: curl localhost with provided json
s: using ffmpeg combine multiple videos into one without audio. Video file names: $(ls -m)

# Generating code
c: Solve classic fizz buzz problem using Python
C: solve classic fizz buzz problem using Python > fizz_buzz.py # using GPT-4
cat fizz_buzz.py | CC: Generate comments for each line of my code # using GPT-4-32K

# Chat Mode
q: please remember my favorite number: 4
q: "what would be my favorite number + 4?" # quoting required because of shell special character "?"
c: make an example request to localhost using Python
C: add caching # using GPT-4
s: What are the files in this directory"?" # it's enough to quote just shell special character(s)
s: Sort them by name
s: Concatenate them using FFMPEG
S: Convert the resulting file into an MP3 # using GPT-4

# REPL Mode
q:
s:
d:
c:
Q: # using GPT-4
S: # using GPT-4
D: # using GPT-4
C: # using GPT-4
QQ: # using GPT-4-32K
SS: # using GPT-4-32K
DD: # using GPT-4-32K
CC: # using GPT-4-32K

# Clear chat cache
q:- # clear chat cache
s:- # clear shell cache
d:- # clear describe-shell cache
c:- # clear code cache

# Clear request cache
q:-- # clear request cache (same for all letters)

# Clear all caches
q:-- # clear all caches (same for all letters)

Hope this is helpful to any of you!

[ristomatti]

Very intuitive and clever! I would have never thought : is a valid character for shell function names. Although maybe I should have as it was ~10y ago I came up with this simple hack:

alias ..='cd ../..'
alias ...='cd ../../..'
alias ....='cd ../../../..'
alias .....='cd ../../../../..'

[kuldeepluvani]

@WolframRavenwolf Your GIST's are dead line. 💀 Can you please repost?

[WolframRavenwolf]

@kuldeepluvani Whoops! Fixed. ✅ Thanks for letting me know. Enjoy the aliases!