tacklebox-cli

tacklebox-cli offers a suite of useful CLI tools.

Usage

tacklebox copy / paste

Cross-platform clipboard management tool. Uses system tools such as wl-copy on Linux Wayland or clip.exe on Windows, and OSC 52 escape codes when copying over SSH or when no other tools are available. See copy_with_tooling() for all supported tools.

$ echo "a" | tacklebox copy --trim && tacklebox paste
a

tacklebox prepend-to-file

Prepend the contents of one file to another, with support for adding a newline automatically and checking if the operation has already been performed on the destination file.

$ echo "template-example" > template
$ echo "hello world" > hello-world.txt
$ tacklebox prepend-to-file template hello-world.txt -n
$ cat hello-world.txt
template-example
hello world

tacklebox find-desktop-entry (Linux only)

Checks all of the paths under $XDG_DATA_DIRS for an application desktop file with the given name. Prints the full path of the desktop file to stdout if found.

$ tacklebox find-desktop-entry kitty
kitty.desktop found in /etc/profiles/per-user/cswimr/share/applications
/etc/profiles/per-user/cswimr/share/applications/kitty.desktop

$ tacklebox find-desktop-entry --read kitty
kitty.desktop found in /etc/profiles/per-user/cswimr/share/applications
# /etc/profiles/per-user/cswimr/share/applications/kitty.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=kitty
GenericName=Terminal emulator
Comment=Fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
TryExec=kitty
StartupNotify=true
Exec=kitty
Icon=kitty
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
X-TerminalArgExec=--
X-TerminalArgTitle=--title
X-TerminalArgAppId=--class
X-TerminalArgDir=--working-directory
X-TerminalArgHold=--hold