How To

BORG – Terminal Based Search

BORG is a tool built of hacking to leave the terminal to search and click around for bash snippets. BORG helps the client to connect to a server at ok-b.org, but you can host your own if you want to (see daemon folder).

Hosting on your own will become less appealing once people start contributing their own content to the database though.

Follow the given steps to install and use BORG,  the following releases only lets you to search and to use add/edit install from source, releases are coming soon.

brew install borg

For Linux version, for more additional information visit this link

wget https://github.com/ok-borg/borg/releases/download/v0.0.1/borg_linux_amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/borg

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/borg

For Mac version

wget https://github.com/ok-borg/borg/releases/download/v0.0.1/borg_darwin_amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/borg

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/borg

 

  • () denotes hits for your query
  • [] denotes snippets found for a given query
  • ... under a [] means more lines to display (use the -f flag for full display, see more about usage below)
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