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mottekit

MotteKit is a multi-purpose "Swiss Army knife" CLI tool.

Installation

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bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmotte/misc/main/scripts/mottekit/install.sh)

Or with custom directory:

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bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmotte/misc/main/scripts/mottekit/install.sh) ~/mydir

Additional requirements

In order to make the Python scripts work, you also need to install the following packages:

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-venv

Usage

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mottekit help

To update:

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mottekit update

Advanced usage

Example of how to create a wrapper for a Python-based CLI tool (e.g. yq in this case):

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mkdir -v ~/apps

python3 -mvenv ~/apps/venv-yq
~/apps/venv-yq/bin/python3 -mpip install yq

mkdir -v ~/.ghdmotte/misc/scripts/mottekit/overrides
echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nexec ~/apps/venv-yq/bin/python3 -myq "$@"' > ~/.ghdmotte/misc/scripts/mottekit/overrides/yq.sh

Then you can invoke it like this:

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mottekit yq --help