2KAbhishek / dexe

The exe launcher 🐚🚀

dexe

The exe launcher 🐚🚀

dexe in action

dexe, pronounced the E X E or dexy is a nix CLI launcher that helps you run any executable, alias, and function on your system.

✨ Features

• List all executables in yqur PATH
• List all aliases and functions defined in your shell
• Powerful fuzzy finding with fzf
• Glance over help info for any available executable
• Easily integrates with neovim, shell, tmux and other tools

⚡ Setup

⚙️ Requirements

• bash, fzf

💻 Installation

git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/dexe
cd dexe
# Link dexe to a directory that's in PATH (~/.local/bin here)
ln -sfnv "$PWD/dexe.sh" ~/.local/bin/dexe

🚀 Usage

dexe: Execute and Launch CLI Tools 🚀✨

Usage: dexe [optional pass-through args]

dexe --wait-before-exit -- Wait for input before exiting
dexe -h, --help -- Display this help menu

dexe README.md -- Run selected command with README.md
dexe --verbose -- Run selected command with --verbose flag

Use the --wait-before-exit flag when you want to "hold" the session even after the command completes, useful in situations where the shell exits after command finishes.

Integrations

• neovim:

I use dexe mapped to Leader t d in my neovim which-key config with termim.nvim

You can add it using this in your which-key config:

    t = {
        name = 'Terminal',
        d = { '<cmd>Sterm dexe<cr>', 'Exe Launcher' },
        w = { '<cmd>Sterm dexe --wait-before-exit<cr>', 'Exe Launcher, Wait' },
    },

• tmux:

dexe is mapped to Alt + d using tmux-tilit

You can add it using this in your tmux.conf:

bind-key -n M-d run-shell "dexe"

• zsh:

dexe is mapped to Ctrl + d in my zsh config

You can add it using this in your .zshrc

bindkey -s "^d" ' dexe^M ^M'

🏗️ What's Next

You tell me!

🧑‍💻 Behind The Code

🌈 Inspiration

Needed a quick way to run tools that runs both on macOS and Linux.

💡 Challenges/Learnings

• Writing pipes to parse all of the executables in PATH
• Figuring out that configured aliases and functions only show up in interactive mode

🧰 Tooling

• dots2k — Dev Environment
• nvim2k — Personalized Editor
• sway2k — Desktop Environment
• qute2k — Personalized Browser

🔍 More Info

• bare-minimum — General purpose template
• tiny-web — Web app template

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