beany

Beany is an interactive command-line client for beanstalkd written in Go

Features

Persistent history
Mass deletion of jobs on selected tube
Paged output when viewing jobs
Tube autocompletion for commands

Installation

go get github.com/eskriett/beany

Usage

beany [options]

Running beany without any arguments will start it in interactive mode. By default it will attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:11300:

$ beany
Connected to '127.0.0.1:11300'
[default] >>> version
beany version: 0.0.1

All commands can also be provided as arguments, e.g.

$ beany version
beany version: 0.0.1

A list of available commands can be viewed with:

$ beany help

Commands:
  clear               clear the screen
  connect             connects to a beanstalk server
  delete              delete a job
  delete-buried       deletes all buried jobs on the current tube
  delete-delayed      deletes all delayed jobs on the current tube
  delete-ready        deletes all ready jobs on the current tube
  disconnect          disconnects from the beanstalk server
  exit                exit the program
  help                display help
  info                info about the current connection
  kick                kick jobs from the current tube
  list-tubes          lists tubes
  peek-buried         peek at buried jobs
  peek-delayed        peek at delayed jobs
  peek-ready          peek at ready jobs
  put                 puts data on the current tube
  stats               display server statistics
  stats-tube          stats the current tube
  use                 use a tube
  version             display version information

Additional information for a particular command can be view with:

$ beany peek-ready help

Looks at the job at the front of the ready queue.

A tube argument can also be provided, otherwise uses the current active tube:

  peek-ready <TUBE>

This command is available via the 'pr' alias

History

beany maintains a persistent history, this can be found at ~/.beany_history.

Colours

Coloured output can be disabled with beany --boring

Pager

By default beany will use whatever the $PAGER environment variable is configured to, otherwise it will default to less -R. For example to run beany with more run:

$ PAGER=more beany

Editor

When use the put command beany will first look for the editor defined by the $EDITOR envrionment variable. If this cannot be found, beany will fallback to using vi. For example, to run beany with nano:

$ EDITOR=nano beany

License

MIT

Credits

Library	Use
github.com/abiosoft/ishell	interactive shell library
github.com/kr/beanstalk	beanstalk client
github.com/fatih/color	colour output
github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter	ascii table

Also thanks to beanwalker for the initial inspiration for this tool