https://github.com/aleandros/about
Command line application for finding information about programs (written in nim-lang)
https://github.com/aleandros/about
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Command line application for finding information about programs (written in nim-lang)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/aleandros/about
- Owner: aleandros
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-05-10T16:54:45.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-04-22T01:15:40.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-09T16:18:04.098Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: command-line-tool, nim
- Language: Nim
- Size: 5.86 KB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# about - Command line tool for finding information about programs
This is a simple tool for finding information about executables found
in your PATH.
While useful, it was also my example project for learning [nim](https://nim-lang.org/)
which is an amazing, super easy to use, fast language.
## Building
Compile with:
```
$ nimble build
```
You can then copy it to your path and you're set.
## Running
Execute `about` to see the documentation. But you can expect something similar to this:
```
$ about python
```
Output:
```
/usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python2.7
```
Options were added for searching history and not matching directory names.
## Future work?
I'm thinking about:
* Stats of program usage
* Inspect process information given the name of the program
* Support for regular expressions