marks7g/borg

A terminal based search engine for bash commands

BORG - A terminal based search engine for bash commands

Borg was built out of the frustration of having to leave the terminal to search for bash commands. Its succinct output also makes it easier to glance over multiple snippets of code.

This is how it looks like:

$ borg "list all files in dir"
(1) create list of all files in every subdirectories in bash
        [11] find . -type f -exec md5 {} \;
        [12] #!/bin/sh
             DIR=${1:-`pwd`}
             SPACING=${2:-|}
             cd $DIR
             for x in * ; do
                 [ -d "$DIR/$x" ] &&  echo "$SPACING\`-{$x" && $0 "$DIR/$x" "$SPACING  " || \
                 echo "$SPACING $x : MD5=" && md5sum "$DIR/$x"
             done

(2) Bash: How to list only files?
        [21] find . -maxdepth 1 -type f
        [22] ls -l | egrep -v '^d'
             ls -l | grep -v '^d'
        [23]     find * -maxdepth 0 -type f  # find -L * ... includes symlinks to files
             -
             fls f        # list all files in current dir.
             fls d -tA ~  #  list dirs. in home dir., including hidden ones, most recent first
             fls f^l /usr/local/bin/c* # List matches that are files, but not (^) symlinks (l)
             -
             [sudo] npm install fls -g
        [24] find . -maxdepth 1 -type f|ls -lt|less

(Only displaying the first 2 hits here, but that's configurable, by default it's 5)

Some explanations for the UI:

• () denotes hits for your query
• [] denotes possible solutions
• ... under a [] means more lines to display
• a - in a solution means separate code examples extracted from the same source

State

Please keep in mind that this is in a really-really early phase. Glitches are expected and there are a lot of low hanging fruits I can go after. The relevancy of the results, the interface, and the available features in general will be greatly improved in the coming weeks.

Installation

Just do a go install, or if you don't have Go installed there are builds in the build folder - pick one according to your environment.

It should be something like (this one is for linux):

wget https://github.com/crufter/borg/blob/master/builds/borg_linux_amd64\?raw\=true -O /usr/local/bin/borg
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/borg

Now you are ready to rock! Query with borg "my query", because there is a server listening to your questions and eager to help! Keep querying, and let me know if you want something to be improved.

Running with docker

If you are using docker, you can use dockerized borg client.

How it works

The client connects to a server at borg.crufter.com, but you can host your own if you want to (see daemon folder). Self hosting will become less appealing once people start contributing their own content to the database though.

Features

• only querying works for now

Future plans

• add a way to add public, private and organisation private entries
• enabling users to rate solutions
• way more, but first let's tackle the ones above =)

Credits

The borg mascot has been delivered to you by the amazing Fabricio Rosa Marques.

Usage

Borg supports gnu flags, so flags are supported both before and after the arguments, so all of the followings are valid:

borg -l 1 -f "md5 Mac"
borg "md5 Mac" -l 1 -f
borg -f "md5 Mac" -l 1

But what do they do?

-f  (= false)
    Print full results, ie. no more '...'
-h (= "borg.crufter.com")
    Server to connect to
-l  (= 5)
    Result list limit. Defaults to 5
-p  (= false)
    Private search. Your search won't leave a trace. Pinky promise. Don't use this all the time if you want to see the search result relevancy improved