GistMGR

Manages URLs in a text file using grep

Installation

GistMGR

• Copy gistmgr.sh into a bin folder like ~/bin or /usr/local/bin.
• Optionally, copy gistmgr.1 into your MANPATH.
• chmod +x (where you put gistmgr.sh)
• Run it from the command line.

GistMGR-FMT

• Copy gistmgrfmt.sh into a bin folder like ~/bin or /usr/local/bin.
• Copy formats into a non-bin folder that you can remember.
• Optionally, copy gistmgrfmt.1 into your MANPATH.
• Set fmtpath in your .gistmgrrc to where you put formats.
• chmod +x (where you put gistmgrfmt.sh)
• Pipe GistMGR into GistMGR-FMT on the command line.

Usage

By default, GistMGR stores the gistlist in ~/.gistmgr. You can change this in ~/.gistmgrrc.

# Add to the GistMGR list
gistmgr add 00 https://google.com

# Remove from the list
gistmgr add 00 https://google.com

# Add to the list with a comment
gistmgr add 00 https://google.com/search 'Amazing!'

# Get everything in list 00.
gistmgr list 00
# => 00 https://google.com/search Amazing!

Each time, it will git commit. It's up to you to git-push, though. You also have to configure the remote to work with Bitbucket Snippets or GitHub Gists.

Internal File Storage

Internally, GistMGR stores the URLs as follows:

<list> <url> [comment]

A list also begins with a comment 'GistMGR' to prevent potential errors when removing a file. For example, a list may look like follows.

# GistMGR
00 https://google.com/search
00 https://medium.com Really neat!
00 https://reddit.com

In addition, any spaces in the URL are transformed to %20. So, if you gistmgr add 00 'https://google.com/search?q=hi world', it will be logged as follows:

00 https://google.com/search?q=hi%20world

This shouldn't cause any problems with websites.

License

GistMGR is under the GNU General Public License.