spellbook VS pyxargs

- Spellbook: Shell and Powershell scripts registry - https://github.com/jmaczan/spellbook demo https://spellbook.maczan.pl/ [Python, TypeScript]

Hi, I'd like to ask what are the shell scripts you enjoy using or find useful?

It might be something you incorporated to your terminal-based workflow. Or maybe some specific scripts that you often reuse. Or you have used it once, but it might be useful to other people. Or maybe you just have a script that is fun to use? Please share

My (not anymore) hidden intention is to gather your recommendations to build an open-source shell script registry Spellbook https://spellbook.maczan.pl/ Source code is here for you if you want to self host or fork it https://github.com/jmaczan/spellbook

A script I sometimes use is a commands repeater https://github.com/jmaczan/spellbook/blob/main/registry/spells/repeat-sh/spell.sh You can specify an interval and a flag to reset/keep the terminal's content after a script invocation

Thanks!

> I too can never remember jq syntax when I need to. I usually just end up writing a Python script

Same here! That's why for small things I made pyxargs [1] to use python in the shell. In another thread I also just learned of pyp [2] which I haven't tried yet but looks like it'd be even better for this use case.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

[2] https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp

I personally use fish, but mostly for the out of the box auto completions and highlighting, I don't use it for actual scripting, nor have it set as the login shell due to the 2nd reason you mentioned.

I mostly use python as well, and for some short commands I made pyxargs [1] which lets you run python code on stdin, or a walk of your current directory.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

pyxargs --py "print('{}') if os.path.ismount('{}') else ''" | pyxargs fusermount -u {}

My primary use case was using this with ffmpeg due to the encoding problem with xargs [2].

It can also run commands in parallel using a terminal multiplexer so outputs don't get mixed up or if they require user input.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs