DEV Community: Niklas Schlimm

Just a simple bash menu

Niklas Schlimm — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:08:03 +0000

Hi there 🙂 I now work with so many complex tools on the command line. That's why I developed a shell menu for each tool as a kind of mnemonic. It's super easy to use. I have put the basic script and a few applications for Git and Kubernetes online cause I thought it might be of interest to the community 🤓

https://github.com/nschlimm/EasyKey.shellmenu

I would be happy to hear your opinion, comments and criticism. If you like it, I would of course be very happy about a star on Github 🙂 Ok, so long - Niklas ✌🏻

Just a simple bash menu

Niklas Schlimm — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:07:02 +0000

Hi there 🙂 I now work with so many complex tools on the command line. That's why I developed my own shell menu for each tool as a kind of mnemonic. It's super easy to use. I have put the basic script and a few applications for Git and Kubernetes online cause I thought it might be of interest to the community 🤓

https://github.com/nschlimm/EasyKey.shellmenu

I would be happy to hear your opinion, comments and criticism. If you like it, I would of course be very happy about a star on Github 🙂 Ok, so long - Niklas ✌🏻

Automate your command line with EasyKey.shellmenu

Niklas Schlimm — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:01:39 +0000

As a developer, I work with many different tools on the command line. That's why I got into the habit of recording everything in a simple shell menu. That's how I came up with EasyKey.shellmenu. This allows me to easily create shell menus for my tools. I use it for kubectl, Maven and Git. Here is an example:

source "/path/to/shellmenu.sh" menuInit "Maven demo menu" submenuHead "Life cycle commands:" menuItem c "Clean all" "mvn clean:clean" menuItem x "Compile" "mvn clean compile" menuItem t "Test" "mvn clean test" menuItem i "Install" "mvn clean install" submenuHead "Also usefull:" menuItem d "Analyze dependencies" "mvn dependency:analyze" menuItem u "Clean compile force updates" "mvn clean compile -U -DskipTests" menuItem e "Show effective settings" "mvn help:effective-settings" menuItem r "Show local repo location" "mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=settings.localRepository | grep -v '\[INFO\]'" menuItem l "Show global settings file location" showGlobalSettingFile startMenu

The snippet creates a simple Maven menu like this:

In the repository on Github for EasyKey.shellmenu there are two more complex examples of menus for Git and kubectl. Check it out an if you like it please leave me a star for sharing it.