Like IntelliSense, but for shells!
IntelliShell acts like a bookmark store for commands, so you don't have to keep your history clean in order to be able
to find something useful with ctrl + R.
It currently works on Bash, Zsh and Fish and should be compatible with most Linux, Windows and MacOS.
Install the binaries:
sh
curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/install.sh | bash
Bookmark your first command by typing it on a terminal and using ctrl + b
(optional) Run intelli-shell fetch to download commands from tldr
Hit ctrl + space to begin the journey!
Remember to bookmark some commands or fetch them after the installation!
sh
curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/install.sh | bash
After installing it using bash, it should work in any supported shell.
powershell
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser # Optional: Needed to run a remote script the first time
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/install.ps1 | iex
After installing it with powershell, it should also work on cmd (without hotkeys).
To install from source you'll need to have Rust installed, which is recommended to be installed using rustup.
sh
cargo install intelli-shell --locked
To enable hotkeys, additional steps are required:
Linux
Download source script:
Bash / Zsh:
sh
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin
curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/intelli-shell.sh > ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin/intelli-shell.sh
Fish:
sh
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin
curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/intelli-shell.fish > ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin/intelli-shell.fish
Edit your profile to source it:
Bash / Zsh: ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc or ~/.bash_profile
sh
source ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin/intelli-shell.sh
Fish: ~/.config/fish/config.fish:
sh
source ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin/intelli-shell.fish
Windows
Download the source script also:
powershell
New-Item -Path $env:APPDATA\IntelliShell\Intelli-Shell\bin -Type Directory
Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -URI "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/intelli-shell.ps1" -OutFile $env:APPDATA\IntelliShell\Intelli-Shell\bin\intelli-shell.ps1
Edit your $Profile to execute it:
powershell
. $env:APPDATA\IntelliShell\Intelli-Shell\bin\intelli-shell.ps1
You can view supported actions by running intelli-shell -h. Most used standalone commands are:
intelli-shell fetch [category] to fetch tldr commands and store them.
[category] can be skipped or a valid folder from tldr's pagesintelli-shell export to export user-bookmarked commands (won't export tldr's commands)intelli-shell import user_commands.txt to import commands into the user categoryctrl + b bookmark currently typed commandctrl + space show suggestions for current linectrl + l replace labels of currently typed commandesc clean current line, this binding can be skipped if INTELLI_SKIP_ESC_BIND=1Note: When navigating items, selected suggestion can be deleted with ctrl + d or edited with any of: ctrl + e,
ctrl + u or F2
You can customize key bindings using environment variables: INTELLI_BOOKMARK_HOTKEY, INTELLI_SEARCH_HOTKEY and INTELLI_LABEL_HOTKEY
You might want to have a look at Marker which is pretty similar but requires Python to be installed on your system.
IntelliShell is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.