Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?

• fzf

  407 59,920 9.6 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

In addition, I think bash's `operate-and-get-next` can be very helpful. When you go back through your shell history, you can hit Ctrl+o instead of enter and it will execute the command then put the next one in your history on the command line, and keep track of where you are in your history. This way, you can rerun a bunch of commands by going to the first one and Ctrl+o till you are done. And you can edit those commands and hit Ctrl+o and still go to the next previously run command.

Note: fzf's history search feature breaks this. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/2399

• just

  167 17,403 9.0 Rust

  🤖 Just a command runner

I started using just [0] on my projects and have been very happy so far. It is very similar to make but focused on commands rather than build outputs.

Define your recipes and then you can compose them as needed.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just

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• ws.sh

  1 0 4.2 Shell

  Organize your shell into workspaces

I made something called shell workspaces[0] for this.

I like to tinker with bash and this has helped me keep all of the commands relevant to a particular project discoverable, accessible, and documented.

It uses a function "," for command execution. So, for instance, if the workspace file defines a function "build", when you're in the workspace, the command `$ , build` will run it.

It's not the most comprehensive solution to this, but it's probably the bit of shell programming that I use almost every day and has saved me tons of time.

[0] https://github.com/nepthar/ws.sh

• atuin

  54 17,775 9.7 Rust

  ✨ Magical shell history

  

I've heard good things about atuin

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

• parseArger

  2 3 8.6 Shell

  Standalone bash argument parsing code generator

I created a tool I called parseArger to create/maintain bash scripts arguments/options/flags parsing code https://github.com/DimitriGilbert/parseArger

• bashly

  14 1,929 9.4 Ruby

  Bash command line framework and CLI generator

It's heavily inspired by ArgBash (https://argbash.dev/) and uses parts of bashly (https://github.com/DannyBen/bashly/) which are very similar tools :)

• navi-tldr-pages

  2 21 7.5 Shell

  tldr-pages for navi, an interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Navi[1] is perfect for this! It's both a fuzzy finder of a personal collection of commands, but it's template syntax is flexible enough to be able to have "command builders"

I have a blog on doing exactly this for a subset of strace[2].

1: https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

2: https://kbknapp.dev/strace-navi/

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