CLI tool for organizing your own scripts on linux

Reed — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:59:00 +0000

I have long hated managing my custom scripts. I plop them in a bin/ dir, then I forget what scripts I have, what arguments they take, and have to sometimes ls ~/bin/ or even nvim ~/bin/script to see what they do.

So I made a tool called clh (for 'Command Line Helper') that organizes all the scripts for me, plus has some handy features.

To execute a custom script, you do: clh group/script_name, but you can clh bin a script and then call it directly from anywhere.

Install from my Gitlab.

For an overview, here is the built-in help menu:

  clh group/script [args] ... group "self" may be omitted

    self - 
        alias - Assign an alias for a script/subscript.
        bin - Create symlink in `bin/` dir pointing to target script.
        edit - Create/Edit a script
        globalize - Convert a group into a global callable script
        help - Show help information
        move - Move a clh script from source to dest
        rm - Delete a script (CANNOT BE RECOVERED)
        source - Convert a script to be loaded via `source` instead of being executed

To get more info on a command, use clh help [group]/[subgroup].

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CLI tool for organizing your own scripts on linux