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Show HN: Forget bash, write your shell scripts in plain English

• statico 2y ago
  Hey folks, a few days ago I wondered: Given all this LLM availability, why can’t I write shell scripts like this? #!/usr/bin/env llmscript Count all files in the current directory and its subdirectories Group them by file extension Print a summary showing the count for each extension Sort the results by count in descending order So I made it a reality in an evening an it kinda works: https://github.com/statico/llmscript https://github.com/statico/llmscript It generates a script and a test suite, and then it attempts to fix the script until it passes the tests. It’s written in Go, but I hardly know Go, and used Cursor to generate most of it in a few hours. It works with Ollama and Claude, and I added support for OpenAI but haven’t tested it. You can also run it in Docker if you want to sandbox it.
  • skydhash 2y ago
    > Given all this LLM availability, why can’t I write shell scripts like this? Because it’s more optimal to generate the script once, then run it everywhere, even on resources constrained devices.
• alyt 2y ago
  > Does this actually work? Yeah, somewhat! Could it create scripts that erase your drive? Maybe! Good luck! Love the transparency lol. Cool idea though! I imagine the "erase your hard drive" risk could be mitigated pretty well by adding an extra LLM step to double-check the generated script and explain each part of it (maybe add an `# explanatory comment` at the end of each line), and then an extra human step to confirm before executing the script.