jiq

A command line tool to manipulate files and directories using javascript

installation

yarn global add jiq

or

npm -g install jiq

Let's start

files and directory

jiq

output

┌───────────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────┬───────────────────┐
│ base              │ type             │ size     │ date              │
├───────────────────┼──────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────┤
│ .git              │ directory        │ --       │ nov 7th 10:54 pm  │
│ .gitignore        │                  │ 63 B     │ nov 7th 10:54 pm  │
│ .npmignore        │                  │ 103 B    │ nov 9th 11:38 pm  │
│ .vscode           │ directory        │ --       │ nov 10th 9:56 pm  │
│ _config.yml       │ text/yaml        │ 26 B     │ nov 8th 11:32 am  │
│ assets            │ directory        │ --       │ nov 9th 11:39 pm  │
│ build             │ directory        │ --       │ sun 10:00 pm      │
│ docs              │ directory        │ --       │ nov 13th 12:06 am │

filter out directories only

jiq . '.filter(x => x.isDirectory)'

output

┌──────────────┬───────────┬──────┐
│ base         │ type      │ size │
├──────────────┼───────────┼──────┤
│ .git         │ directory │ --   │
│ .vscode      │ directory │ --   │
│ assets       │ directory │ --   │
│ build        │ directory │ --   │
│ docs         │ directory │ --   │
│ node_modules │ directory │ --   │
│ src          │ directory │ --   │
│ stubs        │ directory │ --   │
└──────────────┴───────────┴──────┘

rename js to ts file

jiq . '.filter(x => x.ext === "js").each(x => x.rename(x.name + ".ts"))'

output

rename all js files to ts on specified directory

goto File section

get json from url and print as table.

jiq https://reqres.in/api/users '.data' --print table

output

┌─────────┬────┬────────────────────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ (index) │ id │           email            │ first_name │ last_name │                                avatar                                 │
├─────────┼────┼────────────────────────────┼────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│    0    │ 1  │  '[e-mail]'  │  'George'  │  'Bluth'  │  'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/calebogden/128.jpg'  │
│    1    │ 2  │  '[e-mail]'  │  'Janet'   │ 'Weaver'  │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/josephstein/128.jpg'  │
│    2    │ 3  │   '[e-mail]'    │   'Emma'   │  'Wong'   │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/olegpogodaev/128.jpg' │
│    3    │ 4  │    '[e-mail]'    │   'Eve'    │  'Holt'   │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/marcoramires/128.jpg' │
│    4    │ 5  │ '[e-mail]' │ 'Charles'  │ 'Morris'  │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/stephenmoon/128.jpg'  │
│    5    │ 6  │  '[e-mail]'  │  'Tracey'  │  'Ramos'  │  'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/bigmancho/128.jpg'   │
└─────────┴────┴────────────────────────────┴────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

see printer

with json output

jiq https://reqres.in/api/users '.data.head(3).pick({email: "email", name: (x) => x.first_name + " " + x.last_name })'

see all available array functions array, and JSON

output

[
    { email: '[e-mail]', name: 'George Bluth' },
    { email: '[e-mail]', name: 'Janet Weaver' },
    { email: '[e-mail]', name: 'Emma Wong' }
]

Read full documentation here.