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
- Roy Zuo (@roylez)