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+howdoi - a code search tool
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+===========================
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+Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for
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+how to do basic programing tasks?
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+
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+Suppose you want to know how to format a date in bash. Why open your
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+browser and read through blogs when you can just...
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+
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+::
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+
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+ $ howdoi format string bash
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+ > [foo@bar ~]$date --date "2012-02-13" +%s
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+ > 1329055200
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+ > [foo@bar ~]$date --date @1329055200
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+ > Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2012
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+ > [foo@bar ~]$date --date @1329055200 +"%Y-%m-%d"
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+ > 2012-02-13
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+
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+howdoi will answer all sorts of queries
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+
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+::
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+
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+ $ howdoi print stack trace python
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+ > import traceback
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+ >
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+ > try:
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+ > 1/0
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+ > except:
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+ > print '>>> traceback <<<'
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+ > traceback.print_exc()
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+ > print '>>> end of traceback <<<'
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+ > traceback.print_exc()
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+
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+ $ howdoi convert mp4 to animated gif
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+ > video=/path/to/video.avi
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+ > outdir=/path/to/output.gif
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+ > mplayer "$video" \
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+ > -ao null \
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+ > -ss "00:01:00" \ # starting point
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+ > -endpos 10 \ # duration in second
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+ > -vo gif89a:fps=13:output=$outdir \
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+ > -vf scale=240:180
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+
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+ $ howdoi create tar archive
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+ > tar -cf backup.tar --exclude "www/subf3" www
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+
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+Usage:
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+
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+::
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+
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+ usage: howdoi [-h] [-p POS] [-f] [-l] QUERY [QUERY ...]
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+
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+ code search tool
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+
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+ positional arguments:
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+ QUERY the question to answer
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+
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+ optional arguments:
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+ -h, --help show this help message and exit
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+ -p POS, --pos POS select answer in specified position (default: 1)
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+ -f, --full display the full text of the answer
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+ -l, --link display only the answer link
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+
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+Extra notes:
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+
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+- Requires `PyQuery <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyquery>`_
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+- Special thanks to Rich Jones
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+ (`@miserlou <https://github.com/miserlou>`_) for the idea
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+
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+TODOs:
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+
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+- Be able to pick StackOverflow result based on different criteria
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+ (active, oldest, etc.)
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Benjamin Gleitzman