gogo-gadget 0.2.5

A tool to aggregate custom command line tools into one

A tool to aggregate custom command line tools into one.

It can thus serve as a single entry point into a local ecosystem of tools and scripts. It is of course inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Gadget.

Instead of remembering obscure script names or command line tool names with possibly even more obscure options, one can simply create a gogo file containing the whole command and some more memorable command name. In contrast to bash aliases an command can be split into several word tokens, e.g. gogo cleanup conda. Thanks to support for autocompletion in the bash (<TAB> <TAB>), it is even simpler to access the required commands.

Furthermore, help or a very short documentation can be included.

How does it work?

On startup gogo-gadget loads a gogo file by default from ~/.gogo.yml. It then creates a command line interface on the fly using the click python library (http://click.pocoo.org).

Installation

It is recommended to use pipsi https://github.com/mitsuhiko/pipsi to install gogo-gadget. Once pipsi is installed, run:

pipsi install gogo-gadget

A pip install gogo-gadget would also work in principle, however, gogo would need to be installed in all virtual environments used.

To enable tab autocompletion in the bash, add the following to .bashrc:

eval "$(_GOGO_COMPLETE=source gogo)"

Example gogo File

Gogo files are written in YAML.

See below a few command examples along with the corresponding YAML file.

Commands:

gogo start foo
gogo update
gogo cleanup conda
gogo cleanup conda -y
gogo cleanup foo

Gogo file:

cleanup:
  conda:
    cmd: conda clean --all
    help: Remove obsolete files in current conda env
  foo:
    cmd: example_command
    help: doing some other sort cleanups
start:
  foo:
    cmd: docker run -it --rm foo/foo:latest command_in_docker
    help: complicated docker command
update:
  cmd: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
  help: updating software on ubuntu