have openai help you use the terminal

I was reading through swyx's new mac setup and stumbled upon this please function written in bash. Lets give it a go.

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  curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pmarreck/dotfiles/refs/heads/master/bin/functions/please.bash > please.bash

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  source please.bash
  please Tell me why 2>&1

I require gum but it's not installed or in PATH; from https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
please.bash: line 38: s/'/'\\''/g: No such file or directory
please.bash: line 63: gum: command not found
please.bash: line 73: gum: command not found
Aborted.

gum

Lets install gum:

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  brew install gum

which triggered me to run

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  brew upgrade
  brew cleanup

How about a demo?

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  wget https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum/raw/refs/heads/main/examples/demo.sh

And then run it

Back to `please.bash`

Inside of _generate_curl_api_request_for_please make sure you set OPENAI_API_KEY, like

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  OPENAI_API_KEY=$(op read 'op://Personal/OpenAI Key/notesPlain')
  SED=sed

Then you can source please.bash

and do

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 please search through all the subdirectories of ~/willschenk.com/content for files that contain the phrase asdf

Which looks like

That's a bit wordy but you get the idea.

have openai help you use the terminal

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Contents

gum

Back to `please.bash`

References

asciinema for terminal recordings

show don’t tell

Adding a font to astro

very simple

Contents

gum

Back to please.bash

References

asciinema for terminal recordings

show don’t tell

Adding a font to astro

very simple

Back to `please.bash`