cargo

Cargo is a simple utility for pulling in commonly used assets from nearby directories.

For example, I often just want a copy of bootstrap.min.css and/or jquery. I also have a ~/src directory on every machine which has numerous web projects. So, if I were to start a new one I might do something like this:

/Users/john/src $ mkdir new-web-project
/Users/john/src $ cd new-web-project
/Users/john/src/new-web-project $ cargo within src bootstrap.min.css jquery.min.js
Searching under: /Users/john/src
            for: [bootstrap.min.css jquery.min.js]
Copying: /Users/john/src/yapa-search.old.and.busted/resources/public/css/bootstrap.min.css
     to: /Users/john/src/new-web-project/bootstrap.min.css
Copying: /Users/john/src/whisper/static/js/jquery.min.js
     to: /Users/john/src/new-web-project/jquery.min.js

Cargo will automatically search the entire directory tree specified (in this case /Users/john/src) and find all copies of any files you want. It then selects the most common version of each file using file size.

Or maybe I know I have one and only one mime.types file somewhere under etc but I don't feel like hunting for it:

/root/src/quickhack # cargo from /etc mime.types
Searching under: /etc
            for: [mime.types]
Copying: /etc/mime.types
     to: /root/src/quickhack/mime.types

You can use relative paths with cargo from, like cargo from .. if you like. But for longer paths, if you already know you want to search within the subtree 5 levels up, the relatively cumbersome cargo from ../../../../.. file can be avoided via the "up" shortcut:

/Users/john/src/new-web-project/a/b/c/d/e $ cargo up 5 mime.types
Searching under: /Users/john/src/new-web-project
            for: [mime.types]
Copying: /Users/john/src/new-web-project/mime.types
     to: /Users/john/src/new-web-project/a/b/c/d/e/mime.types

(Of course in this situation, I would probably still just "cargo within src" instead, but you get the idea).

Install

For now:

make dependency-install install INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin

Bugs

• Currently cargo does not follow symbolic links. This is because it uses go's filepath.walk which itself does not follow symbolic links.

Ideas

• Add "-m --min= Short-circuit at identical copies."
• Add "--ignore-errors" or similar to keep going when a copy fails
• Add "--confirm" or "--dry-run" or something.
• Add "--move" option
• Add "--md5" option to be more accurate than size (but slower).
• Globs instead of exact filenames

License

Cargo is licensed under the MIT License.