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Hamatoma edited this page Aug 12, 2022 · 3 revisions

Welcome to the text_butler wiki!

Objective

Textbutler is a GUI application that allows text to be filtered or manipulated.

The processing takes place in "buffers", the type of processing is specified in text form in a "command line".

The commands normally allow an input buffer and an output buffer to be specified.

There are predefined buffers, but additional buffers can be defined.

Workflow Example

Three lines are entered in the "input" buffer:

Joe,2,usr
Ada,3,usr
Bob,1,adm

Enter in the command line:

filter what="adm"

Meaning: Only lines containing "adm" should be output.

After clicking "Execute", the following appears in the buffer named "output":

Bob,1,adm

In the command line is entered:

sort ranges="3,n2" separator=","

This means: Sort word by word (indicated by the "separator" parameter), consider column 3, then column 2, whereby column 2 is to be sorted numerically ("n"), words are separated with ",".

After pressing "Execute", that appears in the buffer named "output":

Bob,1,adm
Joe,2,usr
Ada,3,usr

Further examples can be found in the description of the individual commands.

Demo website

The webapp is installed on GitHub: https://hamatoma.github.io/#/

Installation

There are some precompiled packages ready for installation.

Linux

There is a ready package for the architecture x86_64 (64-bit Intel/Amd):

wget -O /tmp/Install.sh https://github.com/hamatoma/text_butler/tree/main/tools/x86_64/Install.sh
# this script contains all needed data. Though it can be "transported" by an USB stick and so on.
bash /tmp/Install.sh

The installation is done in the directory /usr/share/text_butler. There are two symbolic links:

  • /usr/bin/run_text_butler to start the GUI version
  • /usr/bin/text_slave to start the command line version

Website

  • Create a directory for the website.
  • Fetch the archive website.tgz and unpack it in the directory.
  • Run InstallWebsite.sh
BASE=/home/html/www
DOMAIN=butler.huber.de
mkdir -p $BASE/$DOMAIN
cd $BASE/$DOMAIN
wget -O /tmp/Install.sh https://github.com/hamatoma/text_butler/tree/main/tools/website.tgz
unzip website.tgz && rm website.tgz
./InstallWebsite.sh $DOMAIN

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