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one-liner

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Generate a bash one-liner command from a plain English description, producing a working command with proper quoting, escaping, and error handling following modern bash best practices

# one-liner

Generate a bash one-liner command from a plain English description, producing a working command with proper quoting, escaping, and error handling following modern bash best practices.

## Installation

This is a CmdForge tool. Install it from the registry or create it locally using CmdForge.

## Usage

The `one-liner` tool accepts plain English descriptions via standard input and outputs bash one-liner commands.

```bash
# Generate a command to find large files
echo "find all files larger than 100MB in the current directory" | one-liner

# Create a backup command
echo "compress all log files from the last 7 days into backup.tar.gz" | one-liner

# Network monitoring
echo "show all established TCP connections with their process names" | one-liner

# Text processing
echo "count unique IP addresses in access.log and sort by frequency" | one-liner
```

## Arguments

This tool does not accept any arguments.

## How It Works

1. **generate_command**: Sends your plain English description to Claude Sonnet, which generates a bash one-liner following best practices for quoting, escaping, and error handling
2. **clean_output**: Processes the AI response to extract the clean command output

## Dependencies

None

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