idank Open Source Projects | Good First Issue

Doesn't support contextual flags with multiple definitions (i.e. `pacman -Rc`) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

idank/explainshell#365 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2026

is there non-web edition? would be super cool to run it inside command line and use local /usr/share/man Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#354 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2026

Can't render `for (( expr1 ; expr2 ; expr3 )) ; do list ; done` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

idank/explainshell#343 · Opened Aug 18, 2025

Multiline explainer (with popups) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#327 · Opened Jun 22, 2024

Support prompt expansions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#326 · Opened May 21, 2024

Parser doesn't support Arithmetic Expansion Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

idank/explainshell#325 · Opened Apr 11, 2024

Parser doesn't handle less's (and probably vim's?) "plus" arguments Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

idank/explainshell#320 · Opened Nov 8, 2023

the parser doesn't support 'pattern' constructs in the command you tried. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#318 · Opened Aug 26, 2023

any intention on making a cli interface for this? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

idank/explainshell#307 · 9 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Dec 2, 2022

'time' command not showing information Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#301 · Opened Sep 21, 2022

Mobile version Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

idank/explainshell#300 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 9, 2022

website is not mobile responsive Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#295 · Opened Jan 25, 2022

Love this Site Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 1/100

idank/explainshell#294 · 2 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jan 25, 2022

Feature: Actually explain shell constructs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#282 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 3, 2021

echo "$((TRUEKNOWLEDGE+=128))" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

idank/explainshell#273 · Opened Feb 1, 2021

[feature] Add a simple expand command mode Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

idank/explainshell#266 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 6, 2020

nix command "time" not supported Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#257 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 6, 2020

Multi-Line input Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#256 · Opened Mar 27, 2020

[feature request] a simple theme making output easier to parse via shell scripts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

idank/explainshell#250 · Opened Dec 22, 2019

Does not know `:` as alias for `true` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

idank/explainshell#249 · Opened Dec 16, 2019

Weird output for gcc -Wl,option Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

idank/explainshell#246 · Opened Nov 8, 2019

'while IFS= -r -u 4 filename' broke any response about while loops Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#245 · Opened Nov 1, 2019

the parser doesn't support 'arithmetic expansion' constructs in the command you tried Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#243 · Opened Oct 13, 2019

[feature request] command line explainshell tool Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#241 · 2 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2019

Missing the manpage for time Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

idank/explainshell#240 · Opened Jul 8, 2019

`command echo` isn't recognized as normal `echo` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#213 · Opened Jun 13, 2018

Arch manpages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell-manpages#11 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 10, 2018

Run shellcheck on input command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#200 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2018

A more thorough explanation of redirections Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#196 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 20, 2017

Incorrect output for complex gcc commands Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#194 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2017

'history' command not recognized Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

idank/explainshell#176 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 29, 2017

"[[ -z $foo ]]" not parsed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#174 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 6, 2017

What do you think about support pipe? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#173 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2017

Idea: Create a tool to run programs by displaying a ncurses dialog to select/set parameters and then running it with them. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

idank/explainshell#172 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 14, 2017

time { ruby doit.rb; } Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

idank/explainshell#168 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 13, 2016

Proposal: highlight under command Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#164 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 28, 2016

Fails to parse -std=c11 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#159 · Opened Aug 1, 2016

Replace docker man page Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell-manpages#10 · Opened May 24, 2016

Idea: CLI that replaces flags in a given command with corresponding longer versions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

idank/explainshell#156 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 26, 2016

Does not support bash4 "coproc" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

idank/explainshell#154 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 10, 2016

explainshell should recognize `--' options (XCU) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#144 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2015

Missing popover description of process/command substitutions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

idank/explainshell#136 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 5, 2015

Mention word splitting and globbing Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

idank/explainshell#129 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2015

Autocomplete Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

idank/explainshell#122 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2015

Problem with git log -2 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#116 · Opened Feb 5, 2015

Does not recognise multi-letter GCC options Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#113 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 26, 2014

Misidentification of arithmetic expansions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

idank/explainshell#109 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 3, 2014

Head command -number Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

idank/explainshell#96 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2014

shell built-ins are missing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

idank/explainshell#95 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2014

Auto-scroll on clicking a fragment of the shell Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

idank/explainshell#79 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 7, 2014

idank

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