Ape

Ape is an AI for Linux commands.

ape "Find all the important PDF files in user/projects. An important PDF file has 'attention' in its name. Write the results to important_files.txt and then move it to Documents."

Output:

find ~/user/projects -type f -name "*attention*.pdf" > important_files.txt && mv important_files.txt ~/Documents/

Currently, only OpenAI is supported.

To install (uv recommended):

uv tool install ape-linux

Next, set your OpenAI API key:

export APE_OPENAI_API_KEY=key

To run:

ape "Create a symbolic link called win pointing to /mnt/c/Users/jdoe"

Output:

ln -s /mnt/c/Users/jdoe win

Another example:

ape "Delete all the .venv directories under projects/"

Output:

find projects/ -type d -name ".venv" -exec rm -rf {} +

If you try to ask something unrelated to Linux commands:

ape "Tell me about monkeys"

you should get:

echo "Please try again."

You can change the model using --model or -m. The default is gpt-4o. See here for a list of models. For example:

ape "List the contents of the working directory with as much detail as possible" --model gpt-3.5-turbo

Output:

ls -lha

If you pass --execute or -e, the tool will run the command for you after printing it! Be careful with this as LLMs often make mistakes:

ape "Who am I logged in as?"

Output:

whoami
jdoe

For more help:

ape --help

See also: Gorilla