explain

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

Installing explain

Make sure that you have installed Deno first. Then run the following command:

deno install -n explain --allow-net https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sandstreampop/explain/main/mod.ts

Usage

The syntax is 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

Output

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?