Ask HN: Should I make this tool to open long URLs from terminal with short name?

1 points by navalsaini 5 years ago | 2 comments

You can read a description here

https://github.com/flipflopapp/rewq-cli/blob/master/README.md

TLDR:-

$ rewq standup

... would open a meetup-standup link... or just

$ rewq

... if its around 11-am, would open the standup link.

$ rewq notebook

... would open your jupyter notebook on GCP or show a list of URLs for all your notebooks.

Add a comment or upvote if you need something like this.

jmercouris 5 years ago |

I think a github gist should suffice demonstrating how to do it in shell. It should be enough to make a small:

#!/bin/bash browser.xyz url.com

and then symlink it into your path or otherwise.

navalsaini 5 years ago | |

Thanks for your advice. I have been dog-fooding myself by using https://rewq.app and its pretty useful for me. Not sure if the appeal is universal though.