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+---
+title: manage command line tools in user profile
+date: 2023-02-01
+tags: linux, devtools, cli
+---
+
+Installs standalone command line utilities in your user profile
+
+# motivations
+
+You have a bunch of useful tools for day to day activity in the terminal, as a dev or ops guy. Tools like jq, fzf, exa, etc.
+
+But you never know if there are up to date, where they come from, what do they to exactly, do you still need them.
+
+Few of them are part of you OS package manager. Most of the time old version. And you may not want to insall them system wide actually.
+
+Cliget lists, installs and updates standalone command line utilities in your user profile.
+
+Inspired by envinstall (private), [webinstall](gh:webinstall/webi-installers), [asdf](gh:asdf-community/.github).
+
+
+# what
+
+- [ ] search catalog
+  - [ ] identify latest version
+- [ ] download last release
+  - [ ] from GH release
+- [ ] install for user
+  - [ ] from tar.gz
+- [ ] list installed
+  - [ ] identify installed version
+- [ ] can install itself
+- [ ] have nice defaults (gh release, targz, x86_64, linux, etc.)
+- [ ] small codebase, preferably one file
+
+
+## won't
+
+- manage dependencies like apt or pip does
+- install system wide
+- install outside of dedicated folder
+- install from source, be could (rust/cargo, python/pip, go/go)
+- uninstall ; user can remove by her/him-self.
+- overlap with package managers (apt, yum, etc.) or environment managers (nix, asdf, etc.)
+
+
+
+# FAQ
+
+#### I don't want to install python on my machine
+
+CliGet is written in Python but packaged as a standalone program with no dependencies except lic and zlib.
+
+#### I don't trust you. What prevent you from dumping me a malware instead of a genuine software ?
+
+* source code is available and very straightforward. you can audit the code, build from source or even write your own version
+* the tool, will by default, prompt you with clear information of what will be done before install
+* catalog is only one file, readable, with clear information on where the software is coming from and how it will be installed
+* also keep in mind you also have to trust the to be installed software dev team. We are different teams.
+
+#### I want this for macos or mswindows
+
+Currently only Linux is supported. It shoud work on all unix like OS. For others, contributions are wellcome as long as they do not compicate the tool too much.
+
+
+
+

catalog.yaml

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+- bat:
+  desc: a better less
+
+- exa:
+  desc: enhanced ls
+
+- fio:
+  desc: io benchmark
+
+- fzf:
+  desc: fuzzy search
+
+- glances:
+  desc: a better top/htop
+
+- gloss:
+  desc: markdown viewer
+
+- gotty:
+  desc: Share your terminal as a web application
+
+- gron:
+  desc: flatter json to make it greppable
+  repo: tomnomnom/gron
+
+- hx:
+  name: helix
+  desc: text editor, inspired by vim
+
+- jless:
+  desc: json document browser
+
+- jp:
+  desc: ploting
+
+- jq:
+  desc: json query
+
+- outrun:
+  desc: Delegate execution of a local command to a remote machine.
+
+- mintotp:
+  desc: generate TOTP from the terminal
+
+- pet:
+  desc: manager snippets
+
+- pylufic:
+  inst: direct
+  desc: Let's upload that file CLI
+
+- qr:
+  desc: generate qr code
+
+- rg:
+  name: ripgrep
+  desc: improved grep
+  repo: BurntSushi/ripgrep
+
+- slugify:
+  desc: generate sluged version of input
+  repo: un33k/python-slugify
+
+- slurp:
+  desc: put whole input in memory before processing
+  shell: cat > /dev/shm/slurp_$$ && cat /dev/shm/slurp_$$ ; rm /dev/shm/slurp_$$
+
+- sqlite-utils:
+  desc: manipulate sqlite db (ETL)
+  website: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/
+  pipx: 
+
+- stork:
+  desc: full text search, index in terminal, query in terminal or embed in web page
+  repo: jameslittle230/stork
+
+- tab:
+  desc: A modern text/number processing language for the shell.
+  website: http://tab-lang.xyz/
+  repo: https://bitbucket.org/tkatchev/tab
+
+- teip:
+  desc: Highly efficient "Masking tape" for Shell
+  repo: greymd/teip
+
+- tldr:
+  desc: Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands ; must choose a client
+  website: https://tldr.sh/
+
+- tqdm:
+  desc: a better pv
+  pip: 
+
+- ttyd:
+  desc: share terminal over the web
+  repo: tsl0922/ttyd
+
+- up:
+  desc: interactively edit pipe
+  name: Ultimate Plumber
+  repo: akavel/up
+
+- vd:
+  name: VisiData
+  desc: interactive multitool for tabular data
+  pip: visidata,lxml,odfpy,openpyxl,pyarrow,urllib3,requests,pyinstaller
+
+- watchgod:
+  desc: Watch a directory and execute a python function on changes.
+  pip: 
+
+- websocat:
+  desc: client for web sockets, like netcat/curl/socat but for ws://
+  repo: vi/websocat
+
+- ww:
+  name: webwormhole
+  desc: creates ephemeral pipes between computers
+  website: https://webwormhole.io/
+
+- xsv:
+  desc: a fast CSV command line toolkit
+  repo: BurntSushi/xsv
+
+- zee:
+  desc: modern text editor for the terminal
+  cargo:
+
+- zq:
+  desc: process data with Zed queries
+  repo: brimdata/zed
+
+- zsync:
+  desc: file transfer program ; based on rsync ; downloads only new parts of the file
+  website: http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
+