Zigcli

Zigcli is a toolkit for building command lines programs in Zig.

This package provides:

Modules

Zig modules to help developers build their awesome cli programs. Currently there are:

• simargs, which is used to parse arguments
• pretty-table, which is used to print aligned and formatted tables

Programs

Practical command line programs which can be used directly. Currently there are:

• loc, lines of code.
• tree, list contents of directories in a tree-like format.
• yes, output a string repeatedly until killed.
• repeat, repeat a command until it succeeds.
• pidof, like pidof, but for macOS.
• night-shift, control Night Shift in macOS.
• dark-mode, control dark mode in macOS.

Install

Programs

Prebuilt binaries can be found in CI’s artifacts, or you can build from source:

git clone https://github.com/jiacai2050/zigcli.git

Then build with

make build

To build zigcli locally, Zig master is required, which can be downloaded here.

Modules

zigcli support package manager introduced in Zig 0.11.

zig fetch --save=curl https://github.com/jiacai2050/zigcli/archive/${COMMIT}.tar.gz

Replace ${COMMIT} with a real one, then in your build.zig, import the module like this:

const zigcli = b.dependency("zigcli", .{});

// Currently zigcli provide two modules.
exe.root_module.addImport("simargs", zigcli.module("simargs"));
exe.root_module.addImport("pretty-table", zigcli.module("pretty-table"));

Who’s Using

If you’re using zigcli, and would like to be added here, welcome to open a PR.

Roadmap

Loc

• Performance, at least comparable with cgag/loc #1
• More options, such as --exclude <regex>
• Support multiline comment

License

MIT, see LICENSE for details.