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by kiitos 288 days ago
huh?

there is no concept of any single "default incantation" of any command -- every command always has multiple "incantations" depending on what you want to do with it

nobody would ever directly copy and execute any "exact flags" for any command based on a query string, surely this is not what you are suggesting?

I can get on board with a tool that's like tldr but broader-scoped, returning sets of commands that you could choose to run based on input query, but isn't this just claude?

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That’s exactly what this is though, it’s giving you the precise “incantation” you need based on what you’re trying to do. Like “list 20 biggest files in current directory”
well said that’s exactly the spirit of greppers — not trying to guess like an llm, just surfacing the ready-to-run incantations people keep re-googling.
huh? "list 20 biggest files in the current directory" is a search query, or a llm prompt input, it's not any kind of precise incantation.. ?

I mean if greppers is just translating queries like that to related command-calls, that's fine but bizarre and nothing that would require a community-contribution-based database of mappings, that's just a search engine and/or llm mapping problem...