Swatto / lnk

Simple shell script to manage bin in OS X

Linker

A simple shell script to manage bin in your system. Video

Installation

Built and tested on OS X

curl https://raw.github.com/swatto/lnk/master/install.sh | sh

You must load the lnk script to your environnement and the bin folder too. Please add those sentence in your .bashrc or .zshrc

[ -s $HOME/.lnk/lnk.sh ] && . $HOME/.lnk/lnk.sh
export PATH="$HOME/.lnk/bin"

Why use it?

• Are you fed up of writing extra long command to target an executable file ?

~ /Users/me/dev/project1/api/build/API reboot

• And don't you want a cleaner .bashrc or .zshrc ?

export PATH="/Users/me/dev/project1/api/build" 
export PATH="/Users/me/dev/project2/api/v1/build" 
export PATH="/Users/me/dev/project2/api/v2/build"
# ...

Linker will be your companion for that : transform extra long command to a simple one without modifying your path again.

# The current folder contains a executable file
# named 'clientAPI'
lnk add clientAPI

The file is not executable. We are gonna change it for you.
password:
Succes: clientAPI is now added as a global executable file

And that's it with that simple command.

How use it?

lnk add file   # Link the bin file
lnk rm file    # Unlink the bin file
lnk ls         # List bin file

Remove linker from the system

To clean your system of Linker :

• Remove the 2 sentences in your .bashrc or in your .zshrc
• Run this command: rm -fr ~/.lnk