You're working on a new (or old) project, reading some documentation. There's a series of bash commands presented to you to execute sequentially, such as installing and configuring dependencies for a new tool. As you copy and paste these commands one by one into your terminal and hit enter, you think to yourself, "I should really just turn this into a script." You consider it momentarily, until you say "I'll just do it next time I'm doing this, I'm busy right now." Until next time comes, and the cycle repeats.
With Repro, after you're done working with a new set of commands, you can save and enable them as a new script with just one command, so you'll never have to re-read the tutorial steps or retype the commands manually ever again.
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historyutil has different functionality between different shells (tryhistory 5inzsh, you'll get an untruncated list of commands.bashwill truncate to the last 5). historyhas unnecessarily confusing syntax- the lifespan of a command in history is too short if you haven't typed something in a while, or you end up searching through your massive history file
historydoesn't give you a way to categorize and organize sets of commands as scripts
Repro.sh currently requires a compatible shell. We are working in expanding shell support. Here are the currently compatible shells:
bashzsh
Repro also requires that your shell history be enabled, as it ingests your shell history file to determine script contents.
Run the following command in your terminal to install Repro:
git clone git@github.com:asidiali/repro.git ~/.repro/
You can then add Repro alias to your desired shell profile. For example, for your .zsh_profile or .zshrc file:
echo "alias repro=\"~/.repro/repro.sh\"" >> .zshrc && source .zshrc
You should now be able to use the repro command in your terminal. You can try this out with repro -v, which should return the current Repro.sh version installed.
The final step of installation is initializing Repro. Run the following command to do so:
repro init
This will create the necessary directories and files for Repro to function, including a config at ~/.repro/config which you can add and override config variables.
repro init
repro save N <script-name>
repro list
repro reset