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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.
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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.
ffupdate
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Whatbis your opinion on Linux that will make your comment look like this (taken from another sub)
You by no means have to use the snap. I use a shellscript: https://github.com/charmparticle/ffupdate
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Snap Firefox vs Official Firefox from their site
I prefer to just use ffupdate and tbupdate. Firefox releases binary compatible browsers for linux, why not take advantage of it?
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What tools / utilities have you written that you use regularly?
ffupdate is a script which will update firefox, either vanilla, beta, nightly, or devedition. I made this because debian does not provide the latest firefox, and downloading and installing firefox by hand, while better than compiling from source, is tedious. This script automates the whole process of installing and updating firefox, and it can also install and update thunderbird. I have since learned that lots of other people wrote scripts to accomplish the same thing, so my scripts get lost in the shuffle in github.
- firefox 86.0
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