Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go

by enrico50 • 9 years ago

144 21 9 years ago

Walkman• 9 years ago

This is just perfect! So simple, so fast and can even sync to a Gist. Great job! I was looking for something like this for a long time.

snaveen• 9 years ago

Perfect! It has solved the exact problem I run into. Thanks.

friendly_chap3• 9 years ago

Borg is similar, but it saves the snippets to a centralized* server: https://github.com/ok-borg/borg

There is also a web interface https://ok-b.org/

Anyone can edit the public snippets (only bash for now, because it is such an obvious usecase), but private ones are coming too.

The plan is provide a way to save and search snippets from anywhere, terminal, web, phone, whatever.

It is also written in Go.

Edit: the mobile version of the site is not too responsive, but a new version of the UI is coming :)

*Edit 2: You can also self host the server/frontend yourself and change your terminal client to point to your own.

dijit• 9 years ago

Your comment made me decide to check out borg,

But so far I've been unable to get it working in any way- I've submitted a github issue.

Speaking of github- any chance we can have other login mechanisms for the frontend? I do so loathe having external dependencies.

friendly_chap3• 9 years ago

Yes, login with Google at the very least is planned.

And yeah, there is an issue on some systems with dependencies of a go package. We are going to fix that, sorry.

Thanks for the issue.

orkohunter• 9 years ago

This is beautiful! I had recently made something similar to this: https://github.com/orkohunter/keep

msluyter• 9 years ago

This is cool. Also, there is one little trick you can do to make your shell history easier to search. You can comment your commands and then search via comments:

  % big hairy command here # foo the bars!

Then you can history search for 'foo' or whatnot. That doesn't totally obviate the need for a tool like this. I plan on checking it out.

katzgrau• 9 years ago

Nice work, going to give this a try soon. It'll be a big improvement over my mixture of aliases and bash history searches

JoelMcCracken• 9 years ago

Cool project.

I have long held a ~/bin directory that contains things that are similar.

joshbaptiste• 9 years ago

Very cool, just need to add a centralized server feature, might have to fork this and try that.

friendly_chap3• 9 years ago

If you feel like working on something like that, see my comment in this thread about Borg. We are pretty far ahead in the development, and happy to get contributors.

We have 4 members in the team but there are loads of work to do.

amelius• 9 years ago

[...] it is difficult to search them from shell history. There are many similar commands, but they are all different.

I think there's a much simpler way to go about this. Just add a snippet by typing it in your shell followed by an echo command, e.g.:

    ls -rt; echo "List all files reverse-sorted by date"

Then the problem remains to search your shell history, but there are many solutions for that already. And the good part is (besides not needing another tool) that you can search the same way for commands that were not labeled with a description.

ndh2• 9 years ago

Good job on including these animated GIFs. I really, really wish every project would to that.

libria• 9 years ago

The day we know a language has made it is the day people no longer feel the need to suffix "written in X" to attract clicks.

This applies to Go, Rust, whatever. I'd love to see future projects stand on their own merits and be pleasantly surprised when discovering the source language on my own.

icedcoffee99• 9 years ago

It can make a difference. For example, if this was written in ruby I might not bother using. On every device I'd have to get the correct ruby environment setup, install any dependent gems, and make sure if I have the gem path set correctly.

If it's written in go I know I can drop a static binary in my PATH and be done.

divbit• 9 years ago

Yeah ok, thats a good point.

SureshG• 9 years ago

Something similar, if you want to search most commonly used commands - https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

jfultz• 9 years ago

Not too interested in the snippet manager, but when I was watching the demo movie, I noticed the author doing inline shell variable expansion. It never even occurred to me that shells could do that. Wish I had known about this years ago.

On bash, it's M-C-e where the Escape key can serve as the "M" portion. Also, M-r to clear the command-line, which I could also have used many times. Bash docs: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Miscellan...

patlasama• 9 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13861124

kovek• 9 years ago

That's cool! I was thinking of doing something similar a few weeks ago. I settled on using tools I knew well to just achieve what I needed quickly. I use tmux and emacs. I run a tmux session with a window which has a top and bottom pane. Top pane shows a shell, and bottom pane shows emacs. Thanks to tmux, I can send keystrokes to a different pane. With emacs, I tell tmux to send the current line of characters to the top pane. In the emacs session, I have open a help.org file, where I organize some commands. For some reason, this worked with tmux 2.1 but not with tmux 2.3:

    (defun send-command-to-cli () (interactive)
      (let ((current 0)
        (the-command "")
        (start 0)
        (end 0))
        (setq current (point))
        (org-beginning-of-line)
        (setq start (point))
        (org-end-of-line)
        (setq end (point))
        (goto-char current)
        (setq the-command (concat
          "tmux send-keys -t top ' "
          (buffer-substring start end)
          " ' ; tmux send-keys -t top C-a ; tmux send-keys -t top '#'; tmux select-pane -t top; " ))
        (message the-command)
        (shell-command the-command)
    ))

krick• 9 years ago

There also exists something like stackoverflow-ish man-pages: `bro`. Basically, the same thing: community-maintained, upvotable bash snippets.

Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go

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