Ollama Command Line Tricks (YouTube: https://youtu.be/7mw792o1sSg)

Ollama.CLI.tricks.md

• Input from stdin

  • ollama run llama3.1 "prompt"

• Multiline input

  • Using """

• Input from file

  • Using the pipe | operator:
    • cat fox.txt | ollama run llama3.1 "Please translate the provided text to German"
  • Using the redirection operator < :
    • ollama run llama3.1 "Please translate the provided text to German" < fox.txt
  • Consuming Web Pages:
    • curl https://lite.cnn.com/travel/tourism-why-it-went-wrong/index.html | ollama run llama3.1 "Summarize the contents of this HTML page"
    • curl https://lite.cnn.com/travel/tourism-why-it-went-wrong/index.html | ollama run llama3.1 "Find all the people names mentioned in this HTML page"

• More fun with the pipe | operator

  • Passing the output of one LLM to another
    • ollama run llama3.1 "How do you make scrambled eggs?" | ollama run llama3.1 "Translate to german"

• Output to a file

  • Output to a JSON file:
    • ollama run llama3.1 "Countries of Europe" --format json > europe.json
  • Appending to a file:
    • ollama run llama3 "Tell me a joke about programming" > jokes.md
    • ollama run llama3 "Tell me a joke about programming" >> jokes.md

• Verbose output:

  • ollama run llama3.1 --verbose "What is the capital of Iceland?"