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Old 11-15-2017, 07:00 PM   #1
eantoranz
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what's the best means to make a tool known to sysadmins/developers


Hi!

I have created a rather tiny tool on python that plays a very simple role: Takes input from stdin (or from files) and, instead of printing one line after the other, keeps on writing over the same output line. A simple example:

Code:
$ echo start; tar zxvf ../eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz | tail -n 10; echo end
start
eclipse/icon.xpm
eclipse/dropins/
eclipse/.eclipseproduct
eclipse/epl-v10.html
eclipse/about_files/
eclipse/about_files/IJG_README
eclipse/about_files/mpl-v20.txt
eclipse/about_files/lgpl-v21.txt
eclipse/about_files/webkit-bsd.txt
eclipse/about_files/mpl-v11.txt
end
vs

Code:
$ echo start; tar zxvf ../eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz | jol; echo end
start
eclipse/about_files/mpl-v11.txt                                                                                                                                              
end
So, while the tar process was going on, you could see the name of each file being decompressed on the same line. When it finishes, you see the last line.

It supports reading from stdin or from files, has an option to prepend output with the filename.

Now the question is.... what would be the next step to try to make it "known" by script-writers and readily/easily accessible?

https://github.com/eantoranz/jol

Thanks in advance
 
Old 11-16-2017, 06:45 AM   #2
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Perhaps you could supply a use case where your tool is better than
Code:
echo start; tar zxvf ../eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz | tail -n 10 | tr '\n' '\r'; echo; echo end
 
Old 11-16-2017, 08:28 AM   #3
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That's close to what jol does.... but output is kind of garbled:

Code:
$ echo start; tar zxvf ../eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz | tr '\n' '\r'; echo; echo end
start
eclipse/about_files/mpl-v11.txttxtase_4.0.201.v20150204-1700.jar-1212.jar23-0116.jar4j-LICENSE.txtjarclipse.epp.package.java/pom.propertiesactions/jvmargs.propertieseserties
end
Plus, jol can open many files in a single shot (like what cat does) and print their output and by using the -f option it can tell you which file it's printing at a time. Maybe this is something that is not necessary? I'll tell you why I started jol. I created a script that expands dep files that are inside a tgz file. Then I use apt to install them. When my script was running, I would write something like 'Expanding packages....'. Then I would call tar zxvf and so my output would get loss after hundreds of lines of tgz output. I'd like to be able to know what I was doing. tr would be very close to what I need, as I just showed. I could also drop the v option from tar but then I wouldn't know what package is being extracted or if it's even working. By using jol I can see the output of tgz while keeping the terminal more or less one the same spot so I can see what was written on it before calling tar.

Hope that's a better explanation of what it can do.

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