dmenu-scripts vs mg.sh

dmenu-scripts

Serious fun with dmenu (by debxp)

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mg.sh

Mitigram's shell library of reusable script snippets (by Mitigram)

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dmenu-scripts		mg.sh
	Project
1	Mentions	1
33	Stars	0
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Shell	Language	Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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dmenu-scripts

Posts with mentions or reviews of dmenu-scripts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-27.

Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2022

Yes, for creating ad-hoc mini-UIs so the user can select an option. Same with fzf, but it's terminal-bound (rather than X-bound).
The scripts are similar to this one:
https://github.com/debxp/dmenu-scripts/blob/master/dmenu-kil...

mg.sh

Posts with mentions or reviews of mg.sh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-27.

Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2022
I agree, getting to know where a script "comes from" can be complex though. You can `readlink -f` (or equivalent) in many cases, but when implementing a library this might not be entirely practical. I have had to rely on this ugly if-statement [1] for that purpose.
```
  [1]: https://github.com/Mitigram/mg.sh/blob/cbeb206d67fe08be2107deee50acf877f990dbdf/bootstrap.sh#L6
```

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dmenu-scripts and mg.sh you can also consider the following projects:

shellcheck-repl - Validation of Shell Commands Before Evaluation

bash-modules - Useful modules for bash

zx - A tool for writing better scripts

pip - The Python package installer

isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.

jc - CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.

nushell - A new type of shell

rq - Record Query - A tool for doing record analysis and transformation

yq - yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor

learn_programing - Learning Shell，Python，Golang，System，Network [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]

Command-line-text-processing - :zap: From finding text to search and replace, from sorting to beautifying text and more :art: