tash - tools by dhruv

tash lets you stash content that you can access later.

🤔 Motivation

Every now and then, I find myself accessing some piece of string content (a curl request, a shell command, or literally anything else) several times over a period of time. While modern clipboard managers help in recalling previously copied data, they require some searching. I needed a command line tool that would make saving and querying string content quick and easy. So, I wrote tash.

💾 Installation

cargo:

cargo install --git https://github.com/dhth/tash.git

⚡️ Usage

Help

Usage: tash <COMMAND>

Commands:
  delete  Delete one or more content items
  empty   Empty entire stash
  ls      List stashed content keys
  get     Get content from stash
  push    Stash content
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Basic Usage

# push content to tash from stdin
echo -n "some content" | tash push key

cat << EOF | tash push key
Multi line
content goes
here.
EOF

# push content to tash from a file
tash push key -f path/to/file.txt

# push content from a flag
tash push key -d "content goes here"

# push content while preventing overwrites
tash push key -d "content goes here" -p

# push content to tash from system clipboard
tash push key -c

# get content from tash
tash get key

# get content from tash and copy to system clipboard
tash get key -c

# get content from tash and only copy to system clipboard
tash get key -c --no-output

# get content from tash and remove it from its store
tash get key --pop

# list content saved to tash
tash ls

# delete content items
tash delete key1 key2 key3

# empty tash's store
tash empty

Fetch content using fzf

The process of fetching content can be made easier by making use of a fuzzy finder like fzf.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

selected_key=$(
    tash ls |
        fzf \
            --reverse \
            --preview 'tash get {}' \
            --preview-window=right:70% \
            --preview-border=vertical \
            --border=none
)

if [ -z "$selected_key" ]; then
    exit 0
fi

tash get "${selected_key}" -nc

Delete multiple entries using fzf

Same for deletion for content.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

selected_keys=$(
    tash ls |
        fzf \
            --multi \
            --reverse \
            --preview 'tash get {}' \
            --preview-window=right:70% \
            --preview-border=vertical \
            --border=none |
        xargs
)

if [ -z "$selected_keys" ]; then
    exit 0
fi

tash delete ${selected_keys}