gurk-rs VS yq

I have an old Nokia N900 phone that runs a custom alpine linux-based rom (postmarketOS). Given the limited hardware resources, small screen size, and sliding keyboard, you'll be mostly running terminal applications on this phone (some GUI apps works but the experience is mixed). There are some unofficial terminal clients for Signal [0], and iirc hacker news works with the lynx terminal browser. The N900 might work for this scenario as a feature-minimal phone, but depends on your use cases.

[0] https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs

I recently found gurk, a Signal client for linux command line.

gurk-rs

I switched to gurk-rs on my devices and it's amazing, uses zero CPU and have zero impact on battery life. Can be used on desktop, mobile, can be accessed via SSH and tmux.

I want to finish the store encryption implementation in my CLI Signal messenger: https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs The initial implementation is already there, but I could not get back to it for several weeks already. First step: switch to sled, second step: plug encryption in between.

What I often use to just get the full key paths is yq (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq), piping into grep when necessary

  yq -o=props 

For more information about this command visit https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

I've been trying to install and config a plugin (papis.nvim) for a couple of days and am having issues with a function that uses io.popen to run yq to convert yaml files to json. I know my install of yq is fine- I can run yq -oj info.yaml from the command line with no issue and it produces the correct json output. I know the function can find the yq executable, but it returns nil. I've saved the error from the yq golang code: panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

- yq has no if-then-else https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/issues/95 which is a poor design (or omission) in my opinion

After which, I use openapi-generator to make a yaml output.

https://gist.github.com/freshteapot/3637e8d2b5ecdf01b7d25246...

- yq version 3.4.1 (Worth noting, the example uses an out of date yq, so a few modifictaions might be needed)

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

For those pining for a similar yaml query tool for working through acres of config: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

jq is awesome and thanks to the new team for their recent efforts and energy, it massively appreciated.

For anyone looking for such a script, there's some CLIs that make it easy. One is `yq -o props` [1], another way is to use `yq -j` or `yj` [2] to convert to JSON and pipe it to `gron` [3].

[1] https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

[2] https://github.com/sclevine/yj

[3] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron