Option Seeker (osk)

Bash tool to seek information about commands options. It searches the man pages or the --help output for the specified option.

Install

The installation will put the osk script on the ~/.local/bin/ directory.

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/m3f1s7o/osk
$ cd osk
$ chmod +x install
$ ./install

Usage

$ osk [command] -[option1] -[option2] -[optionX]

The options must be separated. The script is able to seek information for long or short options (-o or --option).

Options

short -s (default)

Seeks the specified option using the --help or -h option of the argument command.

long -l

Seeks the specified option using the man page of the argument command.

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To add

• If no osk option specified, first search help, if not found, go to man pages.

Bugs

• Option is listed besides another (osk -l cp -r -> -R, -r, --recursive)
• If just - is introduced as option, all options are printed (osk -l ls - l)
• find command options