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gron
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Show HN: Flatito, grep for YAML and JSON files
This looks cool!
It doesn't do quite the same thing, but a tool I've had good luck with for quick-n-dirty grepping of JSON is gron:
https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
(which I'm sure I learned about from a thread like this on HN...)
It sort of "flattens out" your JSON to allow you to do whatever you want to it (grepping, for one thing!). Then you can even turn gron's output back into JSON with `ungron`.
Maybe someone will find it a useful toolbox addition, much like the Flatito looks to be!
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Make JSON Greppable
It buffers all of its output statements in memory before writing to stdout:
- Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
Have you tried `gron`?
It converts your nested json into a line by line format which plays better with tools like `grep`
From the project's README:
▶ gron "https://api.github.com/repos/tomnomnom/gron/commits?per_page..." | fgrep "commit.author"
json[0].commit.author = {};
json[0].commit.author.date = "2016-07-02T10:51:21Z";
json[0].commit.author.email = "[email protected]";
json[0].commit.author.name = "Tom Hudson";
https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
It was suggested to me in HN comments on an article I wrote about `jq`, and I have found myself using it a lot in my day to day workflow
Obligatory reference to "gron" ("make JSON greppable"), which I find to be quite useful for many common use cases:
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Interactive Examples for Learning Jq
> So all I want is a tool to go from json => line oriented and I will do the rest with the vast library of experience I already have at transformations on the command line.*
The tool for that is likely https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
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Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?
If JQ is too much, see GRON &| Miller
gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
- XML is better than YAML
fzf
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pyfzf : Python Fuzzy Finder
fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.
"git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
"git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.
"git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
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Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
> my history is so noisy I had to find another way
The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].
[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax
[2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...
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Z – Jump Around
You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.
I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.
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Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues
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Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:
[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...
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A Practical Guide to fzf: Vim Integration
There are two plugins allowing us to use fzf in Vim: the native fzf plugin directly installed with fzf, and fzf.vim. The second plugin is built on the first one.
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ltag: A little CLI tool for tagged text searching
The CLI search tool I use is fzf. fzf takes in any text stream and spins up a TUI for you to fuzzy search through the text. I can pipe my tool's output to fzf and violà, I can now search by command and by tag!
What are some alternatives?
peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool
zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.
z - z - jump around
zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot
skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!
zsh-history-substring-search - 🐠 ZSH port of Fish history search (up arrow)
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.