explainshell
command_help
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explainshell
- Oils 0.17.0 ā YSH Is Becoming Real
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looking for typescript linux corpora
https://github.com/idank/explainshell is the github, the "Running Locally" section has a curl command to grab their database dump. And below that is their command for reading in additional man pages.
- What are some lesser-known Linux software that are absolutely life changing?
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Is there a utility program that can describe a command line that Iām about to run?
This works. Ironically a program that explains CLIs doesn't have a CLI.
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Enter a command to see help text for each arg
You can see how the parsing works in the source code (with a specific high level explanation of how this part works), as the site is an open source project.
https://github.com/idank/explainshell#how
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Suggestions for a book to help me learn Linux
Source code is available on github: https://github.com/idank/explainshell
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Repos interesantes de la semana #2
Repo: idank / explainshell
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 ā 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?
naming-cheatsheet - Comprehensive language-agnostic guidelines on variables naming. Home of the A/HC/LC pattern.
hn-reader - A dark mode reader app for Hacker News
starship - āšļø The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
pinpoint - Keystroke launcher and personal command central. Alternative to Spotlight and Alfred for Windows. Alternative to Wox, PowerToys.
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.
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.
visx - šÆ visx | visualization components
sc2-replay-go
fiddle - :electron: š The easiest way to get started with Electron
ffupdate - A shellscript to automatically install and update firefox on linux.
task-spooler - A scheduler for GPU/CPU tasks
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.