ttl is a lightweight command line utility that lets you execute Linux (or Unix based) commands on Windows. The syntax and output have been tweaked a little to be more understandable.
The intention behind making this project is simply to build a cli tool. This README is being written just in case anyone actually ends up using it. This will (hopefully) be my last project on Windows.
Every command is prefixed with ttl
A basic skeleton of each command would look like ttl <command> <opts>
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cat
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Reading a file
ttl cat <filename>displays the contents of the file. -
Writing to a file
ttl cat to <filename>takes input from stdin and overwrite the contents of a file.
ttl cat on <filename>takes input from stdin and appends it to the exisiting file contents.
> and >> are not used simply because I have overwritten the file contents quite a few times when I intended to append. On the other hand, to and on make for a slightly more understandable syntax and might limit mistakes to some extent.
Type:qto exit stdin and write to the file because Ctrl + D does not signify EOF on Windows. -
Examples
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wc
- wc without any flags will return the number of lines, words and bytes in the file.
wc <filename>displays lines, wordd and bytes in the flag - You can add -l, -w or -b to only get the info you need. Flags can be stacked to get multiple sets of info.
wc -<flags>display only the info specified in the flags. - You can get info for multiple files simply by writing multiple files.
wc -<flags> <filename 1> <filename 2> ... <filename n> - Examples
- wc without any flags will return the number of lines, words and bytes in the file.
As of now, basic piping works.
Example: Writing the word counts of multiple files to another file
