shelljs-plugin-inspect
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A ShellJS plugin to add .inspect()
methods for REPL use.
$ npm install --save shelljs
$ npm install --save shelljs-plugin-inspect
Use this plugin in a Node REPL like so:
Without this plugin:
> shell.cat('file1.txt'); // Yuck!
{ [String: 'These are the file contents\nAnd they\'re printed out nicely!\n']
stdout:'These are the file contents\nAnd they\'re printed out nicely!\n',
stderr: null,
code: 0,
cat: [Function: bound ],
head: [Function: bound ],
tail: [Function: bound ],
to: [Function: bound ],
toEnd: [Function: bound ],
sed: [Function: bound ],
sort: [Function: bound ],
uniq: [Function: bound ],
grep: [Function: bound ],
exec: [Function: bound ] }
After:
> require('shelljs-plugin-inspect');
> shell.cat('file.txt');
These are the file contents
And they're printed out nicely!
> shell.ls();
file.txt
otherfile.txt
...
> shell.pwd();
path/to/current/directory
If you're interested in taking a look at the current state of the ShellJS plugin API, take a look at index.js. This has helpful comments explaining the necessary boilerplate for writing a plugin. For an example usage of the plugin, take a look at test/test.js.
FAQs
Add a .inspect method to ShellJS objects for REPL use
The npm package shelljs-plugin-inspect receives a total of 571 weekly downloads. As such, shelljs-plugin-inspect popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that shelljs-plugin-inspect demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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