Issues

• How to run explainshell locally on Windows?

  idank/explainshell#368 · Filter by author Paciupa opened on Sep 27, 2026

• test -s shows all options

  idank/explainshell#367 · Filter by author coaxial opened on Sep 24, 2026

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

  idank/explainshell#365 · Filter by author AlurienFlame opened on Aug 12, 2026
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• is there non-web edition? would be super cool to run it inside command line and use local /usr/share/man

  idank/explainshell#354 · Filter by author kuvaldini opened on Apr 10, 2026
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• Can't render for (( expr1 ; expr2 ; expr3 )) ; do list ; done

  idank/explainshell#343 · Filter by author Clayblockunova opened on Aug 18, 2025

• Multiline explainer (with popups)

  idank/explainshell#327 · Filter by author abitrolly opened on Jun 22, 2024

• Support prompt expansions

  idank/explainshell#326 · Filter by author wwolfe-mend opened on May 21, 2024

• Parser doesn't support Arithmetic Expansion

  idank/explainshell#325 · Filter by author AnonymousApexio opened on Apr 11, 2024

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

  idank/explainshell#320 · Filter by author ELLIOTTCABLE opened on Nov 8, 2023

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

  idank/explainshell#318 · Filter by author realyukii opened on Aug 26, 2023

• any intention on making a cli interface for this?

  idank/explainshell#307 · Filter by author roryfahy opened on Dec 2, 2022
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• 'time' command not showing information

  idank/explainshell#301 · Filter by author Shashwat545 opened on Sep 21, 2022

• Mobile version

  idank/explainshell#300 · Filter by author leandroBarbosaFR opened on Aug 9, 2022
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• website is not mobile responsive

  idank/explainshell#295 · Filter by author danybr0 opened on Jan 25, 2022

• Love this Site

  idank/explainshell#294 · Filter by author UnixCro opened on Jan 25, 2022
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• Feature: Actually explain shell constructs

  idank/explainshell#282 · Filter by author zachriggle opened on Aug 3, 2021

• echo "$((TRUEKNOWLEDGE+=128))"

  idank/explainshell#273 · Filter by author Joshua-Enrico opened on Feb 1, 2021

• [feature] Add a simple expand command mode

  idank/explainshell#266 · Filter by author mitar opened on Aug 6, 2020

• nix command "time" not supported

  idank/explainshell#257 · Filter by author shamb0 opened on Apr 6, 2020

• Multi-Line input

  idank/explainshell#256 · Filter by author jtagcat opened on Mar 27, 2020

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

  idank/explainshell#250 · Filter by author meleu opened on Dec 22, 2019

• Does not know : as alias for true

  idank/explainshell#249 · Filter by author schierlm opened on Dec 16, 2019

• Weird output for gcc -Wl,option

  idank/explainshell#246 · Filter by author RianKoja opened on Nov 8, 2019

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

  idank/explainshell#245 · Filter by author Sipador opened on Nov 1, 2019

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

  idank/explainshell#243 · Filter by author ijash opened on Oct 13, 2019