GOF is an experimental ad-hoc program I developed to address a common problem I often encounter while using the terminal. Frequently, I run commands like eslint or rg, which produce output containing file paths along with line and column numbers. I needed a quick way to extract and gather those file paths efficiently.
GOF takes the output of these commands as standard input (stdin) and generates a list of the files present in the output.
For instance:
$ pnpm lint | gof
/path/to/file:10:35 error description
/path/to/file2:10:35 error description
/path/to/file3:10:35 error descriptionIn my workflow, GOF proves valuable because I can directly capture the output of the last command (thanks to Kitty, my terminal emulator) and pass it to gof. The result from GOF can then be sent to a script that opens Vim and populates the quickfix list with the extracted file paths.
It’s an ad-hoc solution for **my** workflow and is very experimental. See the /samples folder to check what kind of outputs it’s able to parse