Kep is a command-line tool for managing contacts written in Go by Douglas Lamb. You maintain JSON array of objects in a text file, and kep enables you to look up one or more of your contacts and print their information to the console.
- Install Golang
- Set your $GOPATH, and put $GOPATH/bin in your $PATH. Google for help if needed.
- cd to $GOPATH/src directory
cd $GOPATH/src - Clone kep
git clone https://github.com/douglaslamb/kep - Install the CLI library
go get github.com/urfave/cliHopefully it is still around. - Navigate to the kep repo you cloned and
go install
Run kep with no arguments. Kep will create .keprc in your home folder. The default .keprc specifies ~/.kep.json as your contact file. kep will instruct you to create ~/.kep.json and will print the JSON schema to the console. Create ~/.kep.json with at least one contact. You do not need to fill in every property. Just the first and last name will suffice.
Here is how it should look:
[
{
"l": "Doe",
"f": "John",
"e": "[email protected]",
"a": "347 Bort Street",
"p": "555 555 5555",
"c": "Hot Shower Town",
"s": "Texiss",
"co": "Teriyaki",
"n": "Nice boy with a big mouth."
}
]
kep a prints all of the contacts in alphabetical order.
kep f aFirstName prints all of the contacts with the first name aFirstName in alphabetical order. For example, kep f Sara prints all of the contacts with the first name "Sara." It is not case-sensitive. The input string cannot have any spaces.
kep l aLastName prints all of the contacts with the last name aLastName in alphabetical order. For example, kep l Tundly prints all of the contacts with the last name "Tundly." It is not case-sensitive. The input string cannot have any spaces.
kep n aWordInNote prints all of the contacts with the word aWordInNote in their note in alphabetical order. For example, kep n traction prints all of the contacts with the word "traction" in their notes. It is not case-sensitive. The input string cannot have any spaces.
This software uses Go https://golang.org and cli https://github.com/urfave/cli.