Question

A DevOps engineer inherits a maintenance script full of unfamiliar shell commands. They want to use GitHub Copilot in the CLI to get a plain-language breakdown of what a specific complex command (for example, a long tar and find pipeline) actually does, without generating or executing anything new. Which Copilot CLI capability is designed for this purpose?

Accepted Answer

gh copilot explain, which takes a command as input and returns a natural-language description of what it does

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gh copilot suggest, which converts a natural-language request into a shell command

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gh copilot config, which stores frequently used commands as reusable aliases

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gh copilot run, which executes the command and streams annotated output