CommandCrisp

Did you know that the main producer of apples in the United States is the state of Washington? Did you know that the main producer of Microsoft software in the United States is Microsoft, also in Washington?

Really makes you think.

There are several popular varieties of apple on the market today with Crisp in their name: Honeycrisp, Crimson Crisp, Evercrisp, and the coveted and adored Cosmic Crisp. Now the cmd.exe prompt can also pretend to be a variety of Apple: cmdcrisp.

At my work, our developer experience is entirely geared toward local dev on macOS. I am doing Windows, because we build native Windows clients. I'm about 90% of the way getting the stack up and running through a mix of Bash in Windows and running services in WSL, but a few of the scripts use things specific to macOS' command line utilities.

I've implemented just enough Apple to make my unholy Windows/Linux build hack stack runnable.

This is just scratching an itch to make the shell scripts I care about runnable on window command line and in WSL hosts: it is not currently a full-fledged functional reimplementation of the whole thing. If you have further itches, you can fork it or issue a PR here. This is not serious software.

Commands currently implemented:

pbcopy/pbpaste: They're pretty straightforward
open: Just a subset of this is implemented, and it just forwards to start or xdg-open, respectively.
security: Only the teeniest bit of this is implemented for password storage using the OS-native keychain (see go-keyring).

Installing

You need a working copy of the Go compiler toolchain installed on your machine.

git clone git@github.com:jasonbot/cmdcrisp.git
cd cmdcrisp
go install ./...

If you installed Go via the native installer in Windows, the place it adds tools to should already be in your %PATH%.

In other systems, you'll need to add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH, usually it's ~/go/bin/.

Using

Type the name of the desired command in a black text window and press enter. Hooray.