bropages (bro)

A CLI to interact with bropages.org.

Highly readable supplement to man pages. Shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting.

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Installation

The binary name for bropages is bro.

Currently bropages is only available through cargo.

cargo install bropages

Available options

USAGE:
    bro [OPTIONS] <query>

ARGS:
    <query>
            Command to lookup

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --list-themes
            Display a list of supported themes for syntax highlighting.

        --no-paging
            Disable piping of the output through a pager

    -s, --search
            Search if provided query exist in the database
            This searches for entries in the http://bropages.org database

    -t, --theme <theme>
            Set the theme for syntax highlighting, default is `OneHalfDark`. Use '--list-themes' to
            see all available themes.

            [possible values: 1337, Coldark-Cold, Coldark-Dark, DarkNeon, Dracula, GitHub, "Monokai
            Extended", "Monokai Extended Bright", "Monokai Extended Light", "Monokai Extended
            Origin", Nord, OneHalfDark, OneHalfLight, "Solarized (dark)", "Solarized (light)",
            "Sublime Snazzy", TwoDark, "Visual Studio Dark+", ansi, base16, base16-256,
            gruvbox-dark, gruvbox-light, zenburn]

    -V, --version
            Print version information

Note

• This is an unofficial rust port of ruby bropages.
• I don't have any intentions to add the add, no/...no or thanks commands.

TODO

• Cache results ?