I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Jan 20, 2026 • 1 min read


I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed to kill a process running on port 21079. Instead of struggling to call and running a couple of commands, I built a small utility called x.

x kill process running on port 21079

This utility is a pure bash script with no external dependencies (just curl or wget). You describe what you want in plain English after “x”, and it generates the shell command and executes it only after getting your confirmation.

x get all the git branches x delete all pycache and useless python files x grep all errors from ~/access.log file x docker ssh into mysql container

It supports OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic as providers. You just set one API key, and you are good to go. I have open-sourced it, and the repo is linked below. Feel free to fork it and tweak it.

Installation takes a single command and barely a minute. Give it a spin.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses