command_help

:information_source: Extract help text from builtin commands and man pages (by learnbyexample)

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  • Ask HN: What do you use to make CLIs?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022
    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
    1 project | /r/bashrc | 25 Aug 2022
  • Enter a command to see help text for each arg
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2022
    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

  • What tools / utilities have you written that you use regularly?
    42 projects | /r/commandline | 17 Sep 2021
    https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help to extract help text from builtin commands and man pages, ex:
  • What's a program you made that you actually use regularly?
    24 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 28 Aug 2021
    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:
  • Save Time Using Manop to Print Only Selected Content From the Man Page using Manop
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 1 Jun 2021
    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.
  • Explainshell - A tool that takes any shell commands, looks up the syntax and options from man pages, and steps you through what it does!
    1 project | /r/commandline | 26 Jan 2021
    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.
  • Testing
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2021
    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.
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