pet : CLI Snippet Manager

Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go

You can use variables (<param> or <param=default_value> ) in snippets.

Abstract

pet is written in Go, and therefore you can just grab the binary releases and drop it in your $PATH.

pet is a simple command-line snippet manager (inspired by memo). I always forget commands that I rarely use. Moreover, it is difficult to search them from shell history. There are many similar commands, but they are all different.

e.g.

• $ awk -F, 'NR <=2 {print $0}; NR >= 5 && NR <= 10 {print $0}' company.csv (What I am looking for)
• $ awk -F, '$0 !~ "DNS|Protocol" {print $0}' packet.csv
• $ awk -F, '{print $0} {if((NR-1) % 5 == 0) {print "----------"}}' test.csv

In the above case, I search by awk from shell history, but many commands hit.

Even if I register an alias, I forget the name of alias (because I rarely use that command).

So I made it possible to register snippets with description and search them easily.

TOC

• Main features
• Examples
  • Register the previous command easily - bash - zsh
    • fish
  • Select snippets at the current line (like C-r)
    • bash
    • zsh
    • fish
  • Copy snippets to clipboard
• Features
  • Edit snippets
  • Sync snippets
• Hands-on Tutorial
• Usage
• Snippet
• Configuration
  • Selector option
  • Tag
  • Sync
  • Auto Sync
• Installation
  • Binary
  • Mac OS X / Homebrew
  • RedHat, CentOS
  • Debian, Ubuntu
  • Archlinux
  • Build
• Migration
• Contribute

Main features

pet has the following features.

• Register your command snippets easily.
• Use variables in snippets.
• Search snippets interactively.
• Run snippets directly.
• Edit snippets easily (config is just a TOML file).
• Sync snippets via Gist or GitLab Snippets automatically.

Examples

Some examples are shown below.

Register the previous command easily

By adding the following config to .bashrc or .zshrc, you can easily register the previous command.

bash prev function

function prev() {
  PREV=$(echo `history | tail -n2 | head -n1` | sed 's/[0-9]* //')
  sh -c "pet new `printf %q "$PREV"`"
}

zsh prev function

$ cat .zshrc
function prev() {
  PREV=$(fc -lrn | head -n 1)
  sh -c "pet new `printf %q "$PREV"`"
}

fish

See below for details.
otms61/fish-pet

Select snippets at the current line (like C-r)

bash

By adding the following config to .bashrc, you can search snippets and output on the shell.

$ cat .bashrc
function pet-select() {
  BUFFER=$(pet search --query "$READLINE_LINE")
  READLINE_LINE=$BUFFER
  READLINE_POINT=${#BUFFER}
}
bind -x '"\C-x\C-r": pet-select'

zsh

$ cat .zshrc
function pet-select() {
  BUFFER=$(pet search --query "$LBUFFER")
  CURSOR=$#BUFFER
  zle redisplay
}
zle -N pet-select
stty -ixon
bindkey '^s' pet-select

fish

See below for details.
otms61/fish-pet

Copy snippets to clipboard

By using pbcopy on OS X, you can copy snippets to clipboard.

Features

Edit snippets

The snippets are managed in the TOML file, so it's easy to edit.

Sync snippets

You can share snippets via Gist.

Hands-on Tutorial

To experience pet in action, try it out in this free O'Reilly Katacoda scenario, Pet, a CLI Snippet Manager. As an example, you'll see how pet may enhance your productivity with the Kubernetes kubectl tool. Explore how you can use pet to curated a library of helpful snippets from the 800+ command variations with kubectl.

Usage

pet - Simple command-line snippet manager.

Usage:
  pet [command]

Available Commands:
  configure   Edit config file
  edit        Edit snippet file
  exec        Run the selected commands
  help        Help about any command
  list        Show all snippets
  new         Create a new snippet
  search      Search snippets
  sync        Sync snippets
  version     Print the version number

Flags:
      --config string   config file (default is $HOME/.config/pet/config.toml)
      --debug           debug mode

Use "pet [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Snippet

Run pet edit
You can also register the output of command (but cannot search).

[[snippets]]
  command = "echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 2>/dev/null |openssl x509 -dates -noout"
  description = "Show expiration date of SSL certificate"
  output = """
notBefore=Nov  3 00:00:00 2015 GMT
notAfter=Nov 28 12:00:00 2018 GMT"""

Run pet list

    Command: echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 2>/dev/null |openssl x509 -dates -noout
Description: Show expiration date of SSL certificate
     Output: notBefore=Nov  3 00:00:00 2015 GMT
             notAfter=Nov 28 12:00:00 2018 GMT
------------------------------

Configuration

Run pet configure

[General]
  snippetfile = "path/to/snippet" # specify snippet directory
  editor = "vim"                  # your favorite text editor
  column = 40                     # column size for list command
  selectcmd = "fzf"               # selector command for edit command (fzf or peco)
  backend = "gist"                # specify backend service to sync snippets (gist or gitlab, default: gist)
  sortby  = "description"         # specify how snippets get sorted (recency (default), -recency, description, -description, command, -command, output, -output)
  cmd = ["sh", "-c"]              # specify the command to execute the snippet with

[Gist]
  file_name = "pet-snippet.toml"  # specify gist file name
  access_token = ""               # your access token
  gist_id = ""                    # Gist ID
  public = false                  # public or priate
  auto_sync = false               # sync automatically when editing snippets

[GitLab]
  file_name = "pet-snippet.toml"  # specify GitLab Snippets file name
  access_token = "XXXXXXXXXXXXX"  # your access token
  id = ""                         # GitLab Snippets ID
  visibility = "private"          # public or internal or private
  auto_sync = false               # sync automatically when editing snippets

Selector option

Example1: Change layout (bottom up)

$ pet configure
[General]
...
  selectcmd = "fzf"
...

Example2: Enable colorized output

$ pet configure
[General]
...
  selectcmd = "fzf --ansi"
...
$ pet search --color

Tag

You can use tags (delimiter: space).

$ pet new -t
Command> ping 8.8.8.8
Description> ping
Tag> network google

Or edit manually.

$ pet edit
[[snippets]]
  description = "ping"
  command = "ping 8.8.8.8"
  tag = ["network", "google"]
  output = ""

They are displayed with snippets.

$ pet search
[ping]: ping 8.8.8.8 #network #google

You can exec snipet with filtering the tag

$ pet exec -t google

[ping]: ping 8.8.8.8 #network #google

Sync

Gist

You must obtain access token. Go https://github.com/settings/tokens/new and create access token (only need "gist" scope). Set that to access_token in [Gist] or use an environment variable with the name $PET_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN.

After setting, you can upload snippets to Gist.
If gist_id is not set, new gist will be created.

$ pet sync
Gist ID: 1cedddf4e06d1170bf0c5612fb31a758
Upload success

Set Gist ID to gist_id in [Gist]. pet sync compares the local file and gist with the update date and automatically download or upload.

If the local file is older than gist, pet sync download snippets.

$ pet sync
Download success

If gist is older than the local file, pet sync upload snippets.

$ pet sync
Upload success

Note: -u option is deprecated

GitLab Snippets

You must obtain access token. Go https://gitlab.com/-/profile/personal_access_tokens and create access token. Set that to access_token in [GitLab] or use an environment variable with the name $PET_GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN.

You also have to configure the url under [GitLab], so pet knows which endpoint to access. You would use url = "https://gitlab.com"unless you have another instance of Gitlab.

At last, switch the backend under [General] to backend = "gitlab".

After setting, you can upload snippets to GitLab Snippets. If id is not set, new snippet will be created.

$ pet sync
GitLab Snippet ID: 12345678
Upload success

Set GitLab Snippet ID to id in [GitLab]. pet sync compares the local file and gitlab with the update date and automatically download or upload.

If the local file is older than gitlab, pet sync download snippets.

$ pet sync
Download success

If gitlab is older than the local file, pet sync upload snippets.

$ pet sync
Upload success

Auto Sync

You can sync snippets automatically. Set true to auto_sync in [Gist] or [GitLab]. Then, your snippets sync automatically when pet new or pet edit.

$ pet edit
Getting Gist...
Updating Gist...
Upload success

Installation

You need to install selector command (fzf or peco).
homebrew install fzf automatically.

Binary

Go to the releases page, find the version you want, and download the zip file. Unpack the zip file, and put the binary to somewhere you want (on UNIX-y systems, /usr/local/bin or the like). Make sure it has execution bits turned on.

Mac OS X / Homebrew

You can use homebrew on OS X.

$ brew install knqyf263/pet/pet

If you receive an error (Error: knqyf263/pet/pet 64 already installed) during brew upgrade, try the following command

$ brew unlink pet && brew uninstall pet
($ rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar/pet/64)
$ brew install knqyf263/pet/pet

RedHat, CentOS

Download rpm package from the releases page

$ sudo rpm -ivh https://github.com/knqyf263/pet/releases/download/v0.3.0/pet_0.3.0_linux_amd64.rpm

Debian, Ubuntu

Download deb package from the releases page

$ wget https://github.com/knqyf263/pet/releases/download/v0.3.6/pet_0.3.6_linux_amd64.deb
dpkg -i pet_0.3.6_linux_amd64.deb

Archlinux

Two packages are available in AUR. You can install the package from source:

$ yaourt -S pet-git

Or from the binary:

$ yaourt -S pet-bin

Build

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/knqyf263
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/knqyf263
$ git clone https://github.com/knqyf263/pet.git
$ cd pet
$ make install

Migration

From Keep

https://blog.saltedbrain.org/2018/12/converting-keep-to-pet-snippets.html

Contribute

1. fork a repository: github.com/knqyf263/pet to github.com/you/repo
2. get original code: go get github.com/knqyf263/pet
3. work on original code
4. add remote to your repo: git remote add myfork https://github.com/you/repo.git
5. push your changes: git push myfork
6. create a new Pull Request

• see GitHub and Go: forking, pull requests, and go-getting

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License

MIT

Author

Teppei Fukuda