README.md

POWERLINE SWISSARMYKNIFE

A Powerline segment. This segment shows the execution of complex command line defined by user.

By Miguel de Dios Matias.

Installation

Using pip

pip install powerline-swissarmyknife

Configuration

You can activate the Powerline Slotmachine segment by adding it to your segment configuration, for example in .config/powerline/themes/shell/default.json:

{
    "function": "powerline_swissarmyknife.execute",
    "priority": 30,
    "args": {
        "commandLine": "ps aux --no-headers | wc -l",
        "postContent": "⚙️"
    }
},

Show the number of processes running in your system.

Arguments

• commandLine (string): The command line to execute, it can be complex (with pipes) (remember python3 runs as /bin/sh, not bash).
• line (string): The string to format the content of segment.
  • Default: "{preContent}{output}{err}{postContent}"
• preContent (string): The string to show before the result.
  • Default: ""
• postContent (string): The string to show after the result.
  • Default: "🤖"
• successCodes (list(int) or None): The values are success code return (normally 0), the background change to critical success.
  • Default: None
• failureCodes (list(int) or None): The values are fail code return, the background change to critical failture.
  • Default: None

Examples

Shows the upload and download rate and count of torrents download in Deluge.

{
    "function": "powerline_swissarmyknife.execute",
    "priority": 30,
    "args": {
        "commandLine": "deluge-console status | awk '/Total upload:/{print $3$4} /Total download:/{print $3$4} /Downloading:/{print $2\"D\"}' | tr '\n' ' '",
        "postContent": "️"
    }
},

Show a random pornstar from redtube api.

{
    "function": "powerline_swissarmyknife.execute",
    "priority": 30,
    "args": {
        "commandLine": "if [ -f /tmp/list.redtube.json ]; then list=$(cat /tmp/list.redtube.json); else list=$(curl 'https://api.redtube.com/?data=redtube.Stars.getStarList&output=json'); echo $list > /tmp/list.redtube.json; fi; list_length=$(echo $list | jq '.stars | length'); rand=$(echo 'ibase=16;' $(openssl rand -hex 4 | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')  | bc); echo $list | jq \".stars[$(echo \\\"$rand % $list_length\\\" | bc)].star.star_name\" -r",
        "postContent": " 🎥"
    }
},

License

Licensed under the GPL3 License.