focus
command_help
focus | command_help | |
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6 | 8 | |
382 | 93 | |
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8.1 | 0.0 | |
6 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
Go | Shell | |
MIT License | - |
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focus
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Tell ONE terminal app you use everyday but no one seems know about the app
I use focus daily as my pomodoro timer. (Disclaimer: I built it).
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What tools / utilities have you written that you use regularly?
I use a productivity timer I wrote all the time. It's called Focus.
- Focus: A terminal-based productivity timer written in Go
- Introducing Focus — A fully featured productivity timer for the command line, based on the Pomodoro Technique
- Focus is a fully-featured command-line productivity timer based on the Pomodoro Technique
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Introducing Focus, a productivity timer for the command line based on the Pomodoro Technique
Since I switched away from standalone Linux to Windows + WSL2, I couldn't find a pomodoro timer that I was satisfied with so I decided to build one that works on the command-line since that's where I spend most of my time. It's called Focus, and it's written in Go. Posting it here in case others find it useful.
command_help
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Ask HN: What do you use to make CLIs?
I use a lot of CLI tools, but haven't written many for myself. Mostly, aliases/functions and some scripts in Bash/Python.
Extract details for command options from man/help: https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help/blob/master/c...
cut-like syntax for field manipulations with regexp, negative indexing, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/regexp-cut/blob/main/rcut
simple calculator using python syntax: https://learnbyexample.github.io/practice_python_projects/ca...
- A better way of displaying help text on the command line
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Enter a command to see help text for each arg
I wrote a Linux CLI tool [0] that parses the man/help pages to extract option details. Works most of the time for me, but there are plenty of corner cases that don't work.
[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help
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What tools / utilities have you written that you use regularly?
https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help to extract help text from builtin commands and man pages, ex:
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What's a program you made that you actually use regularly?
https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help is big enough to warrant a repo, examples, limitations, etc. I had a list of todo items to improve the script, but after years of usage, I'm fine with the limitations since I rarely encounter them. This helps me to extract documentation of particular options, here's an example:
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Save Time Using Manop to Print Only Selected Content From the Man Page using Manop
I wrote one a few years back (https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help). It has a few corner case issues, but works most of the time for me and supports multiple options to be retrieved.
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Explainshell - A tool that takes any shell commands, looks up the syntax and options from man pages, and steps you through what it does!
I particularly wanted to lookup documentation for command options from my terminal (instead of the website), so wrote a script for it: https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help ... Have a long pending todo list, but despite the issues, the tool is good enough for my needs.
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Testing
When I start a project, I usually try to write the programs incrementally. Say I need to iterate over files from a directory. I will make sure that portion is working (usually with print() statements), then add another feature — say file reading and test that and so on. This reduces the burden of testing a large program at once at the end. And depending upon the nature of the program, I'll add a few sanity tests at the end. For example, for my command_help project, I copy pasted a few test runs of the program with different options and arguments into a separate file and wrote a program to perform these tests programmatically whenever the source code is modified.
What are some alternatives?
PomodoroLogger - Pomodoro Logger :clock930: -- When a time tracker meets Pomodoro and Kanban board
hn-reader - A dark mode reader app for Hacker News
pomotroid - :tomato: Simple and visually-pleasing Pomodoro timer
pinpoint - Keystroke launcher and personal command central. Alternative to Spotlight and Alfred for Windows. Alternative to Wox, PowerToys.
pomidor - Pomidor is a simple and cool pomodoro technique timer.
tera - Interactive Bash script terminal music radio player. Play your favorite radio station, CRUD your favorite lists, and explore new radio stations from your terminal.
xpe - Finally, a commandline xpath tool for linux that is easy to use.
sc2-replay-go
gitstart - Gitstart automates creating a GitHub repo. The script will create .gitignore, a license.txt, a README.md file and commit with a message. It will create a remote repo and push all the files.
ffupdate - A shellscript to automatically install and update firefox on linux.
xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
smenu - smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.