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Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer | Sep 2023

This fx rewrite is very exciting. I'll have to try it. I thought of fx as a wrapper around jq, that allowed quick iteration over building jq scripts. Sort of an Ultimate Plumber [1] but only for jq. It looks like it is now more like a JavaScript processor plus an interactive viewer.

Someone mention Visidata[2]? VisiData is also a TUI that is great on tabular data, and it can work with json. If your JSON is mostly tabular in nature, Visidata does a great job at showing that data and allowing you to explore it. A lot of json I deal with is tabular-like data. There is a great tutorial [3], that can help you get your bearings with Visidata. Once you understand those basics you might want to look at this thread [4] for what commands you can use with json.

[1] Ultimate Plumber: https://github.com/akavel/up

[2] Visidata: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

[3] "Intro to VisiData Tutorial": https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/ by Jeremy Singer-Vine

[4] "Is it possible to "flatten" structured data (like JSON?)": https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/1605

Dt: Duck tape for your Unix pipes | Jul 2023

up: Ultimate Plumber for shell

https://github.com/akavel/up

Show HN: LineSelect, shell utility to interactively select lines in a pipeline | Jul 2023

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Ultimate plumber can do this.

https://github.com/akavel/up

New(ish) command line tools | Apr 2022

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As an alternative allowing the use of any shell command/pipeline on the results interactively, see also: https://github.com/akavel/up

A list of new(ish) command line tools | Apr 2022

https://paweldu.dev/posts/fzf-live-repl/

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20455857

Also featured in that thread: https://github.com/akavel/up

For example: echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview 'grep -R {q} . 2> /dev/null'

RegExr: Learn, Build and Test Regex | Jan 2022

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Ultimate Plumber https://github.com/akavel/up

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644110

FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON | Jan 2022

https://github.com/akavel/up is another tool that can be used to make most of commands interactive

The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor | Nov 2021

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Do you have some tricks for how you handle filtering through logs? Or some ideas if there could be a tool that could help you or mitigate your most critical issue[s]?

I found filtering through longs a major pain even for a fully sighted person like me, so I wrote a tool to help me with that, but it's fully in a "TUI" paradigm (i.e. curses-like), so I presume it wouldn't help you much (https://github.com/akavel/up). No promises, given that the tool as is scratched my itch, but I am honestly curious if something similar could reduce your PITA, including whether this specific tool could be made useful for you through some minimal effort on my side.

Command line tools for productive programmers | Jul 2021

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https://github.com/akavel/up ?

GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell | Jun 2021

Could someone let me know if https://github.com/akavel/up works ok with it? (on Linux or Mac or WSL) I'd be grateful for feedback!

Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf | Mar 2021

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You might like to also check out https://github.com/akavel/up when in need for some more complex filtering with live preview

It Doesn't Work | Mar 2021

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> https://github.com/akavel/up

Holy shit, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

Show HN: Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq | Jun 2020

I like https://github.com/akavel/up as this works on the command line and helps building fast pipes not only with jq, but also with every other text wrangling tool. But I wish it would be a little bit more polished.

The Beauty of Unix Pipelines | Jun 2020

I think it will be on topic if I let myself take this occasion to once again plug in a short public service announcement of an open-source tool I built, that helps interactively build Unix/Linux pipelines, dubbed "The Ultimate Plumber":

https://github.com/akavel/up/

I've also recently seen it being described in shorter words as a "sticky REPL for shell". Hope you like it, and it makes your life easier!

The State of the AWK | May 2020

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This doesn't have the debugger but it allows for a repl interface for awk https://paweldu.dev/posts/fzf-live-repl/

edit: There's also https://github.com/akavel/up which could possibly be used in combination with fzf

The Unix Game | Oct 2019

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I usually resort to making a bash script with a bunch of intermediate files at each step so I can see what’s happening.

Here’s a tool I’ve seen around but never had a big need for: https://github.com/akavel/up

Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL | Jul 2019

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You may also like to have a look at https://github.com/akavel/up as an alternative. It now executes the command only after Enter is pressed (though originally I also went with execution on every keypress). By default it runs shell commands/pipelines, but you can change the contents of SHELL env. variable to write raw ruby, awk, or else.

Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL | Jul 2019

Very cool. Relevant: https://github.com/akavel/up

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019) | Jun 2019

Location: EU (Kraków, Poland)

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies — languages: Go / Golang (expert), C & C++ (strong experience, but currently preferring read-only use), Lua, Nim, Elm, SQL (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, SQLite), Nix, some x86 Assembly, some C#, basic JS/HTML/CSS, basic Rust, basic Python, basic OCaml, & more (polyglot programmer)

Technologies — other: Docker, Linux & bash, Windows & WinAPI & (D)COM, Git, Ansible & SaltStack, distributed systems (incl. networking, concurrency/parallelism), binary protocols / formats, & more

Résumé/CV: on demand; basic overview: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateuszczaplinski/

GitHub FOSS projects: https://github.com/akavel (HN Top 1 achievement: https://github.com/akavel/up)

Email: [email protected] (other contact: https://keybase.io/akavel)

Please don't contact me with offers related to: Ads, FinTech, Gambling, User tracking, Bitcoin.

Go language expert (contributor), polyglot, backend/full-stack. Longtime experience with C & C++ (first languages) — I understand them well, however prefer not to write in them unless absolutely necessary (because UB etc.) Career-long experience with distributed systems, concurrency/parallelism. The domain I'm working in is important to me, I especially like / am motivated doing stuff that helps people / improves their lives / advances the wellbeing of humanity (can be indirectly).

Possibility of part-time (4/5) employment is a plus.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019) | May 2019

Location: EU (Kraków, Poland)

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies — other: Docker, Linux & bash, Windows & WinAPI & (D)COM, Git, Ansible & SaltStack, distributed systems (incl. networking, concurrency/parallelism), binary protocols / formats, & more

Résumé/CV: on demand; basic overview: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateuszczaplinski/

GitHub FOSS projects: https://github.com/akavel (HN Top 1 achievement: https://github.com/akavel/up)

Email: [email protected] (other contact: https://keybase.io/akavel)

Please don't contact me with offers related to: Ads, FinTech, Gambling, User tracking, Bitcoin.

Go language expert (contributor). Longtime experience with C & C++ (first languages) — I understand them well, however prefer not to write in them unless absolutely necessary (because UB etc.) Experience with distributed systems, concurrency/parallelism. The domain I'm working in is important to me, I especially like / am motivated doing stuff that helps people / improves their lives / advances the wellbeing of humanity (can be indirectly).

Possibility of part-time (4/5) employment is a plus.

Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? | Nov 2018

up - https://github.com/akavel/up

Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

It's a new CLI tool I've recently written, and it reached a Top 1 position on HN just after the public release. It works with other classic CLI tools by boosting the speed with which they can be composed together. It's especially useful for quick exploration of logs, CSV files, and other text files or pipelines.