nq
Unix command line queue utility (by leahneukirchen)
fq
jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats (by wader)
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| nq | fq | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 43 | |
| 2,778 | 9,384 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.5 | 9.4 | |
| about 2 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| C | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nq
Posts with mentions or reviews of nq.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-18.
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Sharing resources by queuing jobs
If you want something quick and janky, I suggest nq. It's stupidly simple and lightweight; it just requires that everyone is running as the same user. And only lets exactly one job of any kind run in a given queue. There's basically zero configuration; just nq , and it'll either start running , or will wait its turn.
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Looking for recommendations on my ssh tmux &| tee workflow
For your ad-hoc uses, I would introduce nq. It's an extremely lightweight queuing system, which gives you two things with minimal overhead:
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Run script in background conditionally and killing background process it started
I'm already aware of alternatives which I will consider (at, nq, snooze, but I still want an accurate lightweight CLI stopwatch/timer app and the script otherwise works well--this is more of an exercise on understanding background processes and could be handy in other scripts. Or if the attempt is considdered hacky and ill-advised, I'm curious of an alternative implementation. I just feel nothing is more simple than a very lightweight C-based timer app that exits 0 after specified time has elapsed and don't want to run a cron job or even a while sleep 1 loop for a reminder (sleep isn't even a builtin...).
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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Interesting project. Unfortunate that its name conflicts with one of nq’s executables (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nq), but I’m not sure anything can be done about it.
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Tool to queue tasks and add/remove them?
nq
- Nq – A simple Unix job queue system
fq
Posts with mentions or reviews of fq.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.
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Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
Hey! fq author here. I have a bunch of related tools in the readme https://github.com/wader/fq?tab=readme-ov-file#tools two suggestions: gnu poke and wireshark (can decode lots of more things then just network protocol)
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To a Man with `Jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON
Did someone say let's represent structured data as json? a bit of shameless plug: https://github.com/wader/fq :) It's using a fork of gojq btw!
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
https://github.com/wader/fq has a REPL and can read JSON. Tip is to use "paste | from_json | repl" in a REPl to paste JSON into a sub-REPL, you can also use `` with fq which is a raw string literal
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jq 1.7 Released
I do lots of exploratory work in various structure data, in my case often debugging media filea via https://github.com/wader/fq, which mean doing lots of use-once-queries on the command line or REPL. In those cases jq line-friendly and composable syntax and generators really shine.
- fq (jq for binary formats) has a new v0.7.0 version
- FLaNK Stack 5-June-2023
- fq: jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats
- Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
- GitHub - wader/fq: jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nq and fq you can also consider the following projects:
pueue - :stars: Manage your shell commands.
jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]
HexFiend - A fast and clever hex editor for macOS
jq - Command-line JSON processor
notes - notes on the tools in my Unix/Linux toolbox, dotfiles, etc
Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby
json-toolkit - "the best opensource converter I've found across the Internet" -- dene14
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
miller - Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
timestamp - Prefix each line with a timestamp
i - Server to install/update pre-compiled binaries from GitHub releases.