hal9000

hal maps your commands to an human readable form, you just need to think what you want to do and hal will do it for you with pleasure! It's like a domain for a not-easy-to-remember ip but for your commands.

Aliases are extremely helpful and simple but they are not always self descriptive and easy to remember. Hal is an helper for this, it helps manage your aliases, create, delete, keep them on a single location. Finally it maps your actions into your thoughts. Thoughts? What?

I give you an example. I'm currently using a remote server and the access is made directly by the ip address. I found that very boring and hard to remember.

Well, this was before hal. Now i can simply do:

hal connect to my remote server

Hal will recognize this and will map to my ssh user@x.x.x.x command. I found it helpful.

I developed hal with some inspiring references in mind.

1. HUBOT from Github.
2. boom from Zach Holman.
3. HAL 9000, the super computer from the 2001: A Space Odyssey movie.

Install it via RubyGems:

$ gem install hal9000

example usage:
  hal --list                          lists all actions
  hal --create <thought> <action>     create a new action
  hal --delete <thought>              delete an action

  hal <thought>                       execute an action

  hal --version                       show hal version
  hal --help                          show this shiny help

$ hal --create "say hello" "echo 'Hello'"
$ hal say hello
you - say hello
hal - right way sir! running: 'echo 'Hello''
Hello

$ hal --create "start jenkins" "java -jar /usr/local/opt/jenkins/libexec/jenkins.war"
$ hal start jenkins
(jenkins starts)
...

$ hal --create "copy my ssh key" "pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
$ hal copy my ssh key
(key copied to clipboard)

Hal uses a single JSON file to store all your thoughts and actions. This file is a pure JSON file and is available on your $HOME directory with the name .hal. Alternatively, it's possible to configure the location of this file using an enviroment variable with the name HAL_FILE.

Hal is currently in a very alpha version so any help is very welcome. Just fork it! :)

MIT License (c) David Rodrigues