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Cli-tool to create scope based shortcuts for shell commands.

Description

Cli-tool to create shortcuts for specific shell commands. The commands are scope based. A scope is represented by a directory. Currently, the usage of the parent directory scope is not supported in a sub-directory. The tool allows to create, use, list, remove, rename, edit and reorganize the shortcuts.

Build

The instructions only refer to builds on linux systems.

$ go mod download
$ pandoc doc/instructor.1.md -s -t man | gzip | tee doc/instructor.1.gz > doc/ins.1.gz
$ goreleaser release --skip-publish --rm-dist --snapshot

Usage

Executes a shortcut command.

$ ins <shortcut>

Creates a shortcut command which runs a specific instruction.

ins add <shortcut> <instruction>

Replaces the name of the old shortcut by the new shortcut name.

ins mv <shortcut-old> <shortcut-new>

Edits the instruction of the shortcut by a replacing it with a new one.

ins edit <shortcut> <instruction-new>

Removes the shortcut with the passed name in the current scope.

ins rm <shortcut>

Reorganizes the file in which the shortcuts and instructions are stored.

ins reorganize

Lists existing shortcuts.

ins list

Options

The options -b and --bash allows instructions to be executed in bash mode. This happens by running an instruction like bash -c [instruction]. Warning this mode is not stable it is just experimental. The option can only be used in combination with a shortcut.

ins <shortcut> --bash