AI Tools are becoming considerably more common. Warp AI Terminal is an AI terminal in which you can type ordinary textual inquires and they are converted into one or more linux commands to accomplish your tasks.
There is a version of Warp AI Terminal for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We are focusing on the Linux version here and installing it in Ubuntu. Read more about Warp Terminal here..
Warp Terminal is not fully open source. While Warp does have some open-source components, the terminal itself is not entirely open source. The core features and the application itself are proprietary, but Warp has open-sourced certain parts of its code, like some components used in the interface or integrations.
Warp Terminal is free to use for individuals and professionals. There are pay plans to leverage more advanced AI models.
This is a great tool to assist new Linux users in learning the Linux command line.
Sign on to an Ubuntu terminal on the machine where you want to install Warp Terminal and download it.
wget https://app.warp.dev/download?package=deb -O warp-terminal.deb
Apply execute privilege to the installation package.
chmod +x warp-terminal.deb
Install Warp Terminal.
sudo dpkg -i warp-terminal.deb
If you get any errors (and I did not), you can execute the following command.
sudo apt --fix-broken install
At this point, Warp is completely installed.
Although not shown in the video, the first time you launch Warp Terminal you will see an option to “Sign Up” and this is needed to access the AI models.
The sign-up process will launch a browser session to create an account to connect to the AI models.
Once you run through the “sign up” option you will have free access to the basic models.
Now you can enter any natural language query at the Warp Terminal prompt and the AI will interpret your request. As an I example, I entered:
list all video files in the downloads folder by size from largest to smallest
The command output was…
As you may notice from the output above, the AI will restate what you have asked and then show you the equivalent Linux command to accomplish what you want.
In later examples in the video, note that Warp Terminal will often pause and wait for the user to confirm if they want the command to be executed or cancelled. This is offered as an option to confirm if the AI is understanding what is requested and to avoid running any commands that may produce undesired results.
I also demonstrated how Warp AI terminal understands context and can follow a conversation to provide a series of commands to iterate towards a desired end result.
Warp AI Terminal also has many built-in models even in the basic version.
This really seems like an extremely advanced solution and shows how much AI has evolved. I think you will find many use cases for this great tool.