Stuck on a coding problem? Wish to visit StackOverflow without leaving the terminal? With howdoi, you can do it!
Introduction to howdoi
Howdoi is an open source command line tool that gives answers to your questions right on the command line. Howdoi can be used by anyone and everyone who finds themselves Googling for answers to their basic programming questions.
You wonder:
howdoi print hello in python
Howdoi output:
print(“hello”)
Installation
pip install howdoi
Suppose you want to know how to format a date in bash. Why open your browser and read through blogs (risking major distraction) when you can simply stay in the console and ask howdoi:
$ howdoi format date bash
> DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
howdoi will answer all sorts of queries:
$ howdoi print stack trace python
> import traceback
>
> try:
> 1/0
> except:
> print '>>> traceback <<<'
> traceback.print_exc()
> print '>>> end of traceback <<<'
> traceback.print_exc()
$ howdoi convert mp4 to animated gif
> video=/path/to/video.avi
> outdir=/path/to/output.gif
> mplayer "$video" \
> -ao null \
> -ss "00:01:00" \ # starting point
> -endpos 10 \ # duration in second
> -vo gif89a:fps=13:output=$outdir \
> -vf scale=240:180
$ howdoi create tar archive
> tar -cf backup.tar --exclude "www/subf3" www
You can also search other StackExchange properties for answers:
HOWDOI_URL=cooking.stackexchange.com howdoi make pesto
or as an alias:
alias hcook='function hcook(){ HOWDOI_URL=cooking.stackexchange.com howdoi $* ; }; hcook'
hcook make pesto
I advise you to visit this link: howdoi
There is also an Visual Studio Code Extension, Head over to the MarketPlace to install the extension.
Thank you all.
Top comments (3)
Interesting idea, but I'm still a lot faster just entering my question in the webbrowser and searching the web directly.
You should make it an extension for a pc search app like Wox
Super cool!
very cool.