mugicli 0.0.3

Shell utilities resembling coreutils and findutils, small extendable and windows-friendly

About

Linux shell is very powerful because of shell utils. On Windows you can use bash inside cygwin or msys or gnuwin32 to have similar experience.

But

1. utils don't talk in native paths
2. now you have to take msys/cygwin and batteries with you for your oneliner
3. you cannot easily extend or modify this utils

Aim of this package is to fix all this inconviniences.

1. mugicli talks in native paths, pipe it into other applications without doubt
2. python -m pip install mugicli and you're done (assuming Scripts in %PATH%)
3. mugicli is writen in less than 3k lines of python code, you can easily change it

Utils support many of gnu utils arguments, but not all of them as it is not drop-in replacement and will never be.

You can use this package to avoid bash and powershell and still have decent shell experience.

Applications

pycat

usage: pycat.py [-h] [--text] path [path ...]

prints file to stdout

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --text, -t

pycol

usage: pycol.py [-h] [-n N [N ...]] [path ...]

extracts and prints specific columns

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  -n N [N ...]  column number

pydos2unix

usage: pydos2unix.py [-h] [path ...]

converts line endings from dos to unix (\r\n -> \n)

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pydu

usage: pydu.py [-s] [-h] [--help] [path ...]

prints directories sizes

positional arguments:
  path    path to calculate

optional arguments:
  -s      print only summary
  -h      print in human readible units
  --help

pyecho

usage: pyecho [-e] [-n] [args...]

prints text to stdout

optional arguments:
-h --help  show this message and exit
-e         decode escape sequences
-n         do not print newline

pyextstat

usage: pyextstat.py [-h] [-s] [path ...]

prints file extension statistics

positional arguments:
  path         paths

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  -s, --short

pyfind

usage: pyfind [conditions] [-exec cmd args {} ;] [-delete]

finds files and dirs that satisfy conditions (predicates)

predicates:
  -mtime DAYS          if DAYS is negative: modified within DAYS days, 
                       if positive modified more than DAYS days ago
  -ctime DAYS          same as -mtime, but when modified metadata not content
  -mmin MINUTES        if MINUTES is negative: modified within MINUTES minutes, 
                       if positive modified more than MINUTES minutes ago
  -cmin MINUTES        same as -mmin, but when modified metadata not content
  -newer PATH/TO/FILE  modified later than PATH/TO/FILE
  -newermt DATETIME    modified later than DATETIME
  -newerct DATETIME    same as -newermt but when modified metadata not content
  -name PATTERN        filename matches PATTERN (wildcard)
  -iname PATTERN       same as -name but case insensitive
  -path PATTERN        file path matches PATTERN
  -ipath PATTERN       same as -path but case insensitive
  -cont PATTERN        file contains PATTERN
  -icont PATTERN       same as -cont but case insensitive
  -bcont PATTERN       same as -cont but PATTERN is binary expression
  -type d              is directory
  -type f              is file

predicates can be inverted using -not, can be grouped together in boolean expressions 
using -or and -and and parenthesis

examples:
  pyfind -iname *.py -mmin -10
  pyfind -iname *.cpp -or -iname *.h -not ( -iname moc_* -or -iname ui_* )
  pyfind -iname *.h -exec pygrep -H class {} ;
  pyfind -iname *.o -delete
  pyfind -iname *.py | pyxargs pywc -l

pygrep

usage: pygrep.py [-i] [-o] [-v] [-H] [-h] [-n] [--help] expr [path ...]

prints matching lines

positional arguments:
  expr
  path

optional arguments:
  -i, --ignore-case     ignore case
  -o, --only-matching
  -v, --invert-match    select non-matching lines
  -H, --with-filename   print file name
  -h, --without-filename
                        do not print file name
  -n, --line-number     print line number
  --help

pyhead

usage: pyhead.py [-h] [-n N] [path ...]

prints n lines from head of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -n N        number of lines to print

pyls

usage: pyls.py [-h] [path ...]

lists directory

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pymd5sum

usage: pymd5sum.py [-h] [path ...]

prints md5 hashsum of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pymtime

usage: pymtime.py [-h] [path ...]

prints mtime of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pymtimestat

usage: pymtimestat.py [-h] [-r RECENT] [-o OLD] [-a AVERAGE]
                      [-i INCLUDE [INCLUDE ...]] [-e EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]]
                      [path ...]

prints mtime statistics

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r RECENT, --recent RECENT
                        print recently changed files (max(mtime) - mtime <= N)
  -o OLD, --old OLD     print long ago changed files (mtime - min(mtime) <= N)
  -a AVERAGE, --average AVERAGE
                        print files changed within N seconds around average
                        (abs(average(mtime) - mtime) <= N)
  -i INCLUDE [INCLUDE ...], --include INCLUDE [INCLUDE ...]
                        include files glob
  -e EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...], --exclude EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]
                        include files glob

pysed

usage: pysed.py [-h] [-e E] expr [path ...]

replaces text

positional arguments:
  expr
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -e E        expression

pyseq

Print numbers from FIRST to LAST with INCREMENT
seq LAST
seq FIRST LAST
seq FIRST INCREMENT LAST

pysha1sum

usage: pysha1sum.py [-h] [path ...]

prints sha1 hashsum of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pysha224sum

usage: pysha224sum.py [-h] [path ...]

prints sha224 hashsum of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pysha256sum

usage: pysha256sum.py [-h] [path ...]

prints sha256 hashsum of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pysha384sum

usage: pysha384sum.py [-h] [path ...]

prints sha384 hashsum of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pysha512sum

usage: pysha512sum.py [-h] [path ...]

prints sha512 hashsum of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pysort

usage: pysort.py [-h] [--numeric-sort] [--reverse] [--random-sort] [--unique]
                 [path ...]

sorts lines

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --numeric-sort, -n
  --reverse, -r
  --random-sort, -R
  --unique, -u

pystart

usage: pystart.py [-h] [--show] path [path ...]

opens file in associated application or directory in explorer

positional arguments:
  path        paths to start

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --show

pytail

usage: pytail.py [-h] [-n N] [path ...]

prints n lines from tail of file

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -n N        number of lines to print

pytime

usage: pytime program [...args]

measures execution time of application

pytmp

usage: pytmp.py [-h] [-p PRINT [PRINT ...]] [-i INPUT [INPUT ...]] [-o OUTPUT]
                [--suffix SUFFIX]

temporary file helper

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PRINT [PRINT ...], --print PRINT [PRINT ...]
                        print filenames
  -i INPUT [INPUT ...], --input INPUT [INPUT ...]
                        input data from file
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output data to file
  --suffix SUFFIX

examples:
    pyecho -e 3\n1\n2 | pytmp -o foo
    pytmp -i foo | pysort
    pytmp -p foo | pyxargs pycat 

pytouch

usage: pytouch.py [-h] [-d D] path [path ...]

changes mtime to current time or specified time

positional arguments:
  path        target path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -d D        datetime

pyuniq

usage: pyuniq.py [-h] [--count] [--repeated] [--unique] [path ...]

prints unique or nonunique lines from sorted array of lines

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  --count, -c
  --repeated, -d
  --unique, -u

pyunix2dos

usage: pyunix2dos.py [-h] [path ...]

converts line endings from unix to dos (\n -> \r\n)

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pywc

usage: pywc.py [-h] [-l] [-w] [-m] [-c] [path ...]

calculates number or lines words, chars and bytes in files

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -l          print the newline counts
  -w          print the word counts
  -m          print the character counts
  -c          print the byte counts

examples:
  wc -l text.txt

pyxargs

usage: pyxargs [-n num] command [args...]

reads arguments from stdin and applies them to command

optional arguments:
-h --help  show this message and exit
-n         split arguments to chunks of n

pyxxd

usage: pyxxd.py [-h] [-s SEEK] [-l LEN] [path ...]

prints file as hex

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SEEK, --seek SEEK  start at offset
  -l LEN, --len LEN     number of bytes to print

pyzip

usage: pyzip.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT] {a,x,l} zip [sources ...]

appends, extracts and list contents of zip archive

positional arguments:
  {a,x,l}               add extract list
  zip
  sources

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output directory

Notes

Escaping

Windows shell (cmd) doesn't expand wildcards so you dont need to put them in quotes, also you dont need to escape parenthesis. Escape symbol for special chars is ^, not \

/dev/null windows alternative is NUL