Super Simple Snippets CLI Tool

Description

Snip is a CLI tool which can fastly store and read short snippet.

Every snippet is identified by a description (DESC), a list of tags (TAGS) and the snippet itself (SNIP).

Feature

• Store a snip snip i this tool take the snippet from the system clipboard and ask to insert the DESCRIPTIONS and the TAGS
• List of all snips snip s
• Filter the search by tags with a regex snip s <regex>
• Copy a snip to the clipboard snip s <regex> <index the index of the resulting list is actually copied to the system clipboard
• Add a tag to all the snips found by a regex snip t <tag> <regex>
• Remove a tag to all the snips found by a regex snip r <tag> <regex>
• Delete all snips found by a regex snip d <regex> or just an entry with snip d <regex> <index>

Modifiers and args

By default only the description is shown to the output.

• -s | --output-search show the Snippet to the output
• -t | --output-tags show the Tags to the output
• -o | --output-all show the Everythong to the output
• -a | --search-all the regex search is done among each field

Configuration

The configuration file is named snip.conf.yaml

• and_chars: the chars which correspond to and in the regex (& is the default, but writing \& each time could be boring, <tag1>+<tag2> could be better)
• data_file: the file to store the the snippets

Dependencies

Install the dependencies with requirements.txt. Even if they are not mandatory, the script checks if the libraries are installed otherwise it raises its fallback.

Installation

No installation required, just python. Recommended alias alias snip="some/venv/python /path/to/snip.py"

Licence

GPLv3

I wrote this simple python script just to fit my needs, I really hope you hack this to fit yours.