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Re:Explain Shell by twistedpair on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:45PM (#13990402)
Too bad, I hoped this was a shell util like EXPLAIN in SQL.

e.g. explain cat foo.txt > out.txt

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Re:Explain Shell by Ajedi32 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:29PM (#13990752)
All it needs is an API and you could easily build a tool which does just that.

Though if you wanted it to actually explain `cat foo.txt > out.txt` and not just output the explanation for `cat foo.txt` to `out.txt` you'd probably have to put that in quotes.

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Re:Explain Shell by rena-anju on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @07:20PM (#13991520)
Not really need an API to quickly build a tool for this. Could as well just send a proper request and parse the response, not too much of extra work for this service.
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