tawk vs manop

tawk

Like awk, but using tcl as the scripting language. (by shawnw)

manop

Manop is a simple Bash script that displays a command description and options from the Man page or help on macOS/Linux. (by shinokada)

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tawk		manop
	Project
3	Mentions	2
9	Stars	2
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Tcl	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

tawk

Posts with mentions or reviews of tawk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-30.

Understanding AWK
2 projects | /r/programming | 30 Sep 2021

I wrote my own awk-inspired tool in part to work with non-trivial CSV files like that.
What tools / utilities have you written that you use regularly?
42 projects | /r/commandline | 17 Sep 2021

tawk, an awk-like program that uses tcl for the script language and has a CSV parser mode for non-trivial data where just splitting on comma isn't enough to properly handle it.
Tawk – Awk but in Tcl
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2021

manop

Posts with mentions or reviews of manop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-17.

What tools / utilities have you written that you use regularly?
42 projects | /r/commandline | 17 Sep 2021

Manop to check man pages and options.
Save Time Using Manop to Print Only Selected Content From the Man Page using Manop
2 projects | /r/commandline | 1 Jun 2021

Please see this for Linux installation.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tawk and manop you can also consider the following projects:

hastyhex - A blazing fast hex dumper

manpdf - Read your Man pages in PDF format. Even online!

EgyBestCLI - A Command-Line Interface Wrapper For EgyBest

kks - Handy Kakoune companion.

nbrowser - 🔗 🌐 : an easy way to open links in browsers, mimic the "Open URL with..." dialog on Android, `nbrowser` help you open links in a browser

dotfiles - My personal dotfiles

ledger - Double-entry accounting system with a command-line reporting interface

command_help - :information_source: Extract help text from builtin commands and man pages

dark-toggle - A small POSIX compliant shell script that toggles between the dark and light variants of a GTK theme.

dedupe - Deduplicate files within a given list of directories by keeping one copy and making the rest hard-links.