snippets_cli

A utility to search snippets.bentasker.co.uk (and other sites) from the command line.

It's a little poorly named because I named it based on my original intent and then built something more genericised.

Basically, it provides CLI based search for sites with RSS feeds:

• Fetch the feed
• Iterate through trying to match the search term against title or keywords
• Print either a results table or the associated page

This is the successor to my original python script, rewritten in anticipation of a change in static site generator (which went live in September 2024).

Basically a tool for my own convenience, allows me to grab and search snippets without leaving the comfort of my terminal.

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Usage

snippets_cli [search term | id]

The CLI can be passed a search term or an integer taken from the results table, in which case the snippet will be printed to console.

If only a single snippet matches a search term, no results table will be displayed and the relevant snippet will be printed instead.

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Multi-Site

The utility supports searching a number of my sites, based on the name of the binary when it's called.

It's therefore possible to do

ln -s snippets_cli /usr/bin/btcli
ln -s snippets_cli /usr/bin/rbt_cli

The first will search www.bentasker.co.uk whilst the second will search recipebook.bentasker.co.uk.

See utilities/snippets_cli_go#8 for more information.

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Example Output

$ ./snippets_cli elemen
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Search results: elemen                                                                            |
+-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+
|   # | TITLE                                                                          | LANGUAGE   |
+-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| 114 | Detect when Enter is pressed within an Input Element (Javascript)              | Javascript |
| 113 | Select contents of element and its children and copy to clipboard (Javascript) | Javascript |
|  12 | Check if table has element (LUA)                                               | LUA        |
+-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+

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Copyright

Copyright (C) 2024 B Tasker. All Rights Reserved. Released under MIT LICENSE