PathMarker is a simple command line tool that solves the perpetual problem of selecting files out of bash output.

PathMarker is inspire by guake terminal, base on Facebook PathPicker.

It is easiest to understand by watching simple demos:

After installing PathMarker, using it is as easy as piping into PathMarker set. It takes a wide variety of input -- try it with all the options below:

• git status | PathMarker.py set
• hg status | PathMarker.py set
• git grep "FooBar" | PathMarker.py set
• grep -r "FooBar" . | PathMarker.py set
• git diff HEAD~1 --stat | PathMarker.py set
• find . -iname "*.js" | PathMarker.py set
• arc inlines | PathMarker.py set

and anything else you can dream up!

Files in the output will marked by number.

After use PathMarker.py set to mark files. You can use files with PathMarker.py get.

Numbers follow PathMarker.py get will replace by files name marked by PathMarker.py set.

Try:

• PathMarker.py get vim 1
• PathMarker.py get md5sum 1 2 3

• cd /usr/local/ # or wherever you install apps
• git clone https://github.com/zqb-all/PathMarker.git
• cd PathMarker/
• git submodule init
• git submodule update

Here we make a symbolic link from the bash script in the repo to /usr/local/bin/ which is assumed to be in the current $PATH

• ln -s "$(pwd)/PathMarker.py" /usr/local/bin/PathMarker.py now PathMarker.py should work
• git show | PathMarker.py set
• PathMarker.py get vim 1

For easily to use PathMarker.py with git/vim, try source PathMarker_help.sh in .bashrc

• echo "source $(pwd)/PathMarker_help.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
• source ~/.bashrc

Now you can use t as git, v as vim, fcd as cd, ffd as fd, ffind as find

• t show
• v 1
• ffd src
• ffind . -name src
• fcd 1

Note: If you don't have fd, ffd just same as ffind If you don't like these command, just modify PathMarker_help.sh

PathMarker is BSD-licensed.