SwiftOnSecuritythis website for understanding Linux commands you paste in is so good https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=nmap+-vvv+-sS+-p+1-65535+--max-retries%3D1+-oN+TARGET.txt+IP
ice.cream.assassin@SwiftOnSecurity I just found this site the other day and it is fantastic.
Lizzy Miller@SwiftOnSecurity I know, I *know* that the site title is Explain Shell. But my brain keeps parsing it as Explains Hell and being confused.
Mike Ely@elmiller0330 @SwiftOnSecurity your first thought had the echo of truth.
Free Radical@SwiftOnSecurity I was just looking at this yesterday. Mentioned in a Talk Python podcast iirc.
@SwiftOnSecurity found the episode: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/392/data-science-from-the-command-line
Data Science from the Command Line
When you think data science, Jupyter notebooks and associated tools probably come to mind. But I want to broaden your toolset a bit and encourage you to look around at other tools that are literally at your fingertips. The terminal and shell command line tools. On this episode, you'll meed Jeroen Janssens. He wrote the book Data Science on The Command Line Book and there are a bunch of fun and useful small utilities that will make your life simpler that you can run immediately in the terminal. For example, you can query a CSV file with SQL right from the command line.
Fugue State Machine Moto@SwiftOnSecurity great resource for sure. And if you’re too embarrassed to paste in public, you can self-host! https://github.com/idank/explainshell
paillp@SwiftOnSecurity Sure is great!
Your command can be shortened by using -p- (1-65535) btw 🙂
Papá Robot@SwiftOnSecurity explains hell.
Space Rogue@SwiftOnSecurity so a reverse man page? Cool.
Scriddie@SwiftOnSecurity This plus chatGPT to get them in the first place!
iz_florestaThis is hands down one of my favorite learning tools - probably use it on a daily basis!
Dave the introvert 🦩@SwiftOnSecurity Bookmarked it, thanks for sharing :)
Olivier Forget@SwiftOnSecurity I was literally wishing for this exact thing a few days ago.
https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=nmap+-vvv+-sS+-p+1-65535+--max-retries%3D1+-oN+TARGET.txt+IP
Helchose@SwiftOnSecurity Oh wow!!
Adam Katz@SwiftOnSecurity It's good though limited.
The first example on explainshell.com correctly explains :(){ :|:& };: but doesn't tell you what you need to know (it's a fork bomb). It also can't explain awk or sed commands 😞
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@SwiftOnSecurity it also helps visualise my idea that command line invocations are imperative sentences normally with an elided subject, and many nominal and prepositional phrases…
When you use things like piping, those can be seen as conjunctive or subjunctive phrases, depending on construction. And when you use things like $() or `` you’re building subjunctive phrases…
Mans R@juandesant @SwiftOnSecurity Interesting idea. Continuing, some of the special variables ($$, $!, etc) can be regarded as pronouns. Redirections are prepositions.
scribblemacher@SwiftOnSecurity I need this for webpack configs
John May@SwiftOnSecurity Does seem like it could be a little more emphatic e.g. https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=sudo+rm+-rf+%2F
1nknown@SwiftOnSecurity i didn't know this site, amazing
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Rob Pomeroy@SwiftOnSecurity Someone needs to get on with explainregex.com.
Officially Tara 🕷️ 
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a screen shot of "explainshell.com" breaking down and explaining all of the command line flags and arguments to an example shell command (in this case, `nmap -vvv -sS -p 1-65535 --max-retries=1 -oN TARGET.txt IP`)
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