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howdoi - a code search tool

This is a ruby clone of original Python howdoi by gleitz.

Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for how to do basic programing tasks?

Suppose you want to know how to format a date in bash. Why open your browser and read through blogs when you can just...

$ howdoi format string bash
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9832393/how-to-bash-script-format-unix-time-to-string
> 
> [foo@bar ~]$date --date "2012-02-13" +%s
> 1329055200
> [foo@bar ~]$date --date @1329055200
> Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2012
> [foo@bar ~]$date --date @1329055200 +"%Y-%m-%d"
> 2012-02-13

howdoi will answer all sorts of queries

$ howdoi print stack trace python
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7901238/javas-printstacktrace-equivalent-in-python
>
> import traceback
>
> try:
>     1/0
> except:
>     print '>>> traceback <<<'
>     traceback.print_exc()
>     print '>>> end of traceback <<<'
> traceback.print_exc()

Installation

gem install howdoi

Usage

::

Usage: bin/howdoi [options] QUERY ...

    -p, --pos N                      select answer in specified position (default: 1)
    -a, --all                        display the full text of the answer

Author

Notes

  • Requires Nokogiri
  • Special thanks to Rich Jones (@miserlou) for the idea, and Benjamin Gleitzman (@gleitz) for original Python implementation

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