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I would like to implement a keyboard shortcut to restart gnome-shell whenever this one crashes (some bugs aren't currently fixed just yet). For this I would need a command line to restart the shell.

The Alt+F2 and restart command won't work when the shell is crashed because the prompt is implemented in the shell.

Hence, how to restart the gnome-shell from command line?

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The command to replace the gnome-shell would be gnome-shell --replace.

From the manual page of gnome-shell:

--replace             Replace the running window manager
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Thanks I wasn't sure --replace = "restart". – Benjamin Jan 31 at 15:56
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The command should just be gnome-shell --replace.

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