Borg was built out of the frustration of having to leave the terminal to search and click around for bash snippets. Borg's succint output also makes it easy to glance over multiple snippets quickly.
borg "list only files"
(1) Bash: How to list only files?
[a] find . -maxdepth 1 -type f
[b] ls -l | egrep -v '^d'
ls -l | grep -v '^d'
(2) List only common parent directories for files
[a] # read a line into the variable "prefix", split at slashes
IFS=/ read -a prefix
# while there are more lines, one after another read them into "next",
# also split at slashes
while IFS=/ read -a next; do
new_prefix=()
# for all indexes in prefix
for ((i=0; i < "${#prefix[@]}"; ++i)); do
# if the word in the new line matches the old one
if [[ "${prefix[i]}" == "${next[i]}" ]]; then
...Use borg pipeto less to pipe the results straight to less, or any other program of your choosing.
Can't find what you are looking for? Be a good hacker and contribute your wisdom to the hive mind - add your own snippets or tweak the existing ones.
The following releases only let you search, to use add/edit install from source, releases are coming soon.
brew install borg
For linux, download a release manually releases
wget https://github.com/ok-borg/borg/releases/download/v0.0.1/borg_linux_amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/borg
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/borg
Or download a release manually for Mac:
wget https://github.com/ok-borg/borg/releases/download/v0.0.1/borg_darwin_amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/borg
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/borg
When you see a result that worked for you, you can use the worked command to give feedback:
borg worked 12
Once you do this the result will rank higher for similar queries - it is especially useful if you find a good result that you think are too down in the result list.
For more commands and their explanations, please see advanced usage
The client connects to a server at ok-b.org, but you can host your own if you want to (see daemon folder).
Self hosting will become less appealing once people start contributing their own content to the database though.
()denotes hits for your query[]denotes snippets found for a given query...under a[]means more lines to display (use the-fflag for full display, see more about usage below)
The borg mascot has been delivered to you by the amazing Fabricio Rosa Marques.
You can use the dockerized borg client if you don't want to install anything on your host!