explain

explain is a CLI tool that brings Wikipedia to your terminal. Fetches a summary for a given term. Built with Deno.

Installing explain with Deno

Assuming you already have installed Deno:

deno install -n explain --allow-net https://deno.land/x/explain/mod.ts

Usage

explain <term>

Whitespace is allowed.

A list of more specific terms to choose from is presented when there is more than one match.

Example

explain heat death paradox

Outputs:

Formulated in 1862 by Lord Kelvin, Hermann von Helmholtz and William John Macquorn Rankine, the heat death paradox, also known as Clausius’s paradox and thermodynamic paradox, is a reductio ad absurdum argument that uses thermodynamics to show the impossibility of an infinitely old universe. Assuming that the universe is eternal, a question arises: How is it that thermodynamic equilibrium has not already been achieved?