keep

A Meta CLI toolkit

Your personal shell command keeper

Why?

Writwick Wraj loves using the command line.

Writwick googles "How to do X in terminal?" and multiple forums and blog posts finally provide him the magical command for the rescue. Problem Solved !

Fast forward couple weeks, Writwick has to do X in terminal, again. Wraj remembers solving this few weeks ago. Let him do a reverse-i-search with Ctrl+R. Nope, can't remember sh*t. Browser search history? 25 web pages found matching X. Argh!

Writwik finally finds the solution. From this time Writwik starts writing the commands somewhere online for the future.

Wait, why shouldn't he keep the command in his terminal itself if this is only place where he'll ever have use it?

Features

• Save a new command with a brief description
• Search the saved commands using powerful patterns
• Save the commands as a secret GitHub gist
• Use keep push and keep pull to sync the commands between GitHub gist and other computers.

ProTip : Save the commands you usually forget in ssh sessions and sync it with your local machine.

Installation

$ pip3 install keep

Use Python 3.6 or later.

You can install pip3 using apt-get as sudo apt install python3-pip.

Usage

Usage: keep [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Keep and view shell commands in terminal only.

  Read more at https://github.com/orkohunter/keep

Options:
  -v, --verbose  Enables verbose mode.
  --help         Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  edit          Edit a saved command.
  github_token  Register a GitHub Token to use GitHub Gists as a backup.
  grep          Searches for a saved command.
  init          Initializes the CLI.
  list          Shows the saved commands.
  new           Saves a new command.
  pull          Pull commands from saved GitHub gist.
  push          Push commands to a secret GitHub gist.
  rm            Deletes a saved command.
  run           Executes a saved command.
  update        Check for an update of Keep.

See the detailed usage and tutorial.

Command-line Completion

To enable command-line completion (TAB completion) follow these steps for the shell of your choice

bash

1. Create a directory in your home directory called .bash

    mkdir -p $HOME/.bash
   

2. Copy completion/keep.bash to $HOME/.bash/keep

    curl -SLo "$HOME/.bash/keep" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OrkoHunter/keep/master/completions/keep.bash"
   

3. Add the following lines to $HOME/.bashrc file

    [ -f "$HOME/.bash/keep" ] && . "$HOME/.bash/keep"
   

zsh

1. Create a directory in your home called .zsh

    mkdir -p $HOME/.zsh
   

2. Copy completion/keep.zsh to $HOME/.zsh/_keep

    curl -SLo "$HOME/.zsh/_keep" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OrkoHunter/keep/master/completions/keep.zsh"
   

3. Add the following lines inside $HOME/.zshrc file

    fpath=($HOME/.zsh $fpath)
    autoload -Uz compinit && compinit
   

Contribute

This is a very young project. If you have got any suggestions for new features or improvements, please comment over here. Pull Requests are most welcome !

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Not a command line fanatic? Here are some resources for you :

• https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line
• https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line
• https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell
• https://github.com/aharris88/awesome-cli-apps