GPT in terminal
written by daniel in
GPT
on 29 Mar 2023
One application of GPT I found useful in software development is generating and manipulating structured data with vague instructions.
For example: generate test fixtures
$ h generate sample yaml of 5 example users, not an array
user1:
name: John Doe
email: john.doe@example.com
age: 35
gender: male
occupation: software engineer
user2:
name: Jane Smith
email: jane.smith@example.com
age: 28
gender: female
occupation: graphic designer
user3:
name: James Brown
email: james.brown@example.com
age: 42
gender: male
occupation: accountant
user4:
name: Sarah Johnson
email: sarah.johnson@example.com
age: 31
gender: female
occupation: teacher
user5:
name: Michael Lee
email: michael.lee@example.com
age: 25
gender: male
occupation: marketing specialist
Generate mock UI data:
$ h give me a json array of 10 randomly generated sales records with timestamp, amount, description and customer id, return data only > records.json
$ cat records.json
{
"data": [
{
"timestamp": "2022-05-04 10:32:19",
"amount": 135.78,
"description": "Product A",
"customer_id": "Cust_3456"
},
{
"timestamp": "2022-04-30 14:20:55",
"amount": 57.99,
"description": "Product B",
"customer_id": "Cust_2238"
},
{
"timestamp": "2022-05-01 09:45:12",
"amount": 89.99,
"description": "Product C",
"customer_id": "Cust_5789"
},
...
]
}
Generate CSV:
$ h give me an example csv of 10 webpage visits with headers, return csv only > visits.csv
$ cat visits.csv
Timestamp,Page URL,Referrer,User Agent,IP Address
2021-06-01T09:00:00Z,https://www.example.com/,https://www.google.com/,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:05:00Z,https://www.example.com/page1,https://www.example.com/,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:10:00Z,https://www.example.com/page2,https://www.example.com/page1,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:15:00Z,https://www.example.com/page3,https://www.example.com/page2,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:20:00Z,https://www.example.com/page4,https://www.example.com/page3,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:25:00Z,https://www.example.com/page5,https://www.example.com/page4,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:30:00Z,https://www.example.com/page6,https://www.example.com/page5,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:35:00Z,https://www.example.com/page7,https://www.example.com/page6,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:40:00Z,https://www.example.com/page8,https://www.example.com/page7,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:45:00Z,https://www.example.com/page9,https://www.example.com/page8,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36,192.168.0.1
GPT can also perform ad-hoc data analyses and transformations, althought sometimes it takes a few prompts:
$ h translate user agent strings to browser names with versions in the following csv dataset: $(cat visits.csv)
Timestamp, Page URL, Referrer, User Agent, IP Address
2021-06-01T09:00:00Z, https://www.example.com/, https://www.google.com/, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:05:00Z, https://www.example.com/page1, https://www.example.com/, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:10:00Z, https://www.example.com/page2, https://www.example.com/page1, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:15:00Z, https://www.example.com/page3, https://www.example.com/page2, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:20:00Z, https://www.example.com/page4, https://www.example.com/page3, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:25:00Z, https://www.example.com/page5, https://www.example.com/page4, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:30:00Z, https://www.example.com/page6, https://www.example.com/page5, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:35:00Z, https://www.example.com/page7, https://www.example.com/page6, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:40:00Z, https://www.example.com/page8, https://www.example.com/page7, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
2021-06-01T09:45:00Z, https://www.example.com/page9, https://www.example.com/page8, Chrome 91.0.4472.77 (Windows 10), 192.168.0.1
h is a bash function inspired by this blog post.
You’ll need to obtain an API token first.
You can change model to gpt-4 instead of gpt-3.5-turbo if you have access.
function ask_gpt() {
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions -s \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAPI_TOKEN" \
-d "$(jq -c -n --arg content "$*" '{model:"gpt-3.5-turbo",messages:[{role:"user",$content}],temperature:0.7}')" \
| jq -r '.choices[0].message.content // .error.message'
}
alias h="ask_gpt"