stimer
command_help
stimer | command_help | |
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4 | 8 | |
1 | 93 | |
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1.8 | 0.0 | |
about 3 years ago | over 3 years ago | |
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MIT License | - |
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stimer
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What are some neat and useful CLI programs?
Im plugging my own: https://github.com/deynh/stimer
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What's a program you made that you actually use regularly?
cli timer. use it all the time. thought it was weird linux distros didn't come with something simple already (im aware you can make simple bash script if you wanted): https://github.com/deynh/stimer
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stimer (simpletimer) - a simple CLI timer
Github
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 — 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?
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
hn-reader - A dark mode reader app for Hacker News
LinkedIn-Learning-Captions
pinpoint - Keystroke launcher and personal command central. Alternative to Spotlight and Alfred for Windows. Alternative to Wox, PowerToys.
Arduino-Wake-Up-Light - An alarm clock which turns on the lights very slowly. It also uses a buzzer to produce gentle "tick" sounds after certain time.
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.
sonarApp - A small kivymd app designed to provide notifications once certain devices enter the LAN.
sc2-replay-go
planes - Variant of battleships game
ffupdate - A shellscript to automatically install and update firefox on linux.
scripts - various scripts and tools
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.