Mookie Launcher

A simple cli menu tool to launch a set of predefined commands.

Mookie launcher allows you to specify a menu structure in JSON format and execute the selected command. It can be useful for quickly launching hard to remember oneliners, bash scripts, programs, etc.

Installation

Install from Arch Linux AUR:

yay -S mkl-bin

With Go:

go install github.com/make0x20/mkl@latest

Install latest version using curl:

Linux:

# 64-bit
curl -sSL "https://github.com/make0x20/mkl/releases/latest/download/mkl_linux_amd64" -o mkl && chmod +x mkl && sudo mv mkl /usr/local/bin/

# 32-bit
curl -sSL "https://github.com/make0x20/mkl/releases/latest/download/mkl_linux_386" -o mkl && chmod +x mkl && sudo mv mkl /usr/local/bin/

MacOS:

# ARM CPUs
curl -sSL "https://github.com/make0x20/mkl/releases/latest/download/mkl_darwin_amd64" -o mkl && chmod +x mkl && sudo mv mkl /usr/local/bin/

# Intel CPUs
curl -sSL "https://github.com/make0x20/mkl/releases/download/v0.2.2/mkl_darwin_arm64" -o mkl && chmod +x mkl && sudo mv mkl /usr/local/bin/

Raspberry Pi:

# 64-bit
curl -sSL "https://github.com/make0x20/mkl/releases/latest/download/mkl_linux_armv6" -o mkl && chmod +x mkl && sudo mv mkl /usr/local/bin/

FreeBSD:

# 64-bit
curl -sSL "https://github.com/make0x20/mkl/releases/latest/download/mkl_freebsd_amd64" -o mkl && chmod +x mkl && sudo mv mkl /usr/local/bin/

OpenBSD:

# 64-bit
curl -sSL "https://github.com/make0x20/mkl/releases/latest/download/mkl_openbsd_amd64" -o mkl && chmod +x mkl && sudo mv mkl /usr/local/bin/

Windows

I have no idea honestly. Something along the lines of downloading mkl_windows_amd64.exe from the Releases page, renaming it to mkl.exe and putting it in your PATH.

Create a menu

Create a menu.json inside ~/.config/mookielauncher (or pass a custom path using -m /path/to/menu.json). Example menu:

{
  "System monitor": "htop",
  "Code editor": "nvim",
  "Calendar": "cal -3",
  "Git": {
  "Log - pretty": "git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(auto)%d%C(reset)' --all",
  "Log - oneline": "git log --oneline"
  },
  "System": {
  "Update (Arch)": "sudo pacman -Syu",
    "Disk usage": "df -h",
    "Free memory": "free -h",
    "Kernel version": "uname -r"
    },
  "Security": {
    "Generate password": "head -c 32 /dev/random | base64 | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9'",
    "Check ports": "sudo netstat -tulnp",
    "External IP": "curl ifconfig.me"
  }
}

Theming

You can customize the colors of the menu by creating a theme.json file inside ~/.config/mookielauncher (or pass a custom path using -t /path/to/theme.json). Example theme with all possible parameters:

{
  "base_foreground": "#FFFFFF",
  "base_background": "",
  "base_bold": false,

  "title_foreground": "#FF0053",
  "title_background": "",
  "title_bold": true,
  "title_separator": "double",

  "option_foreground": "#00BDED",
  "option_background": "",
  "option_bold": false,

  "selected_foreground": "#00BDED",
  "selected_background": "#000000",
  "selected_bold": true,

  "selector_foreground": "#000000",
  "selector_background": "#FF0053",
  "selector_bold": true,
  "selector_string": "❯ ",

  "submenu_pointer": " ❯"
}

title_separator options are: normal, thick, double, block, block_outer, block_inner.

Usage

# simple usage - will look for menu.json and theme.json inside ~/.config/mookielauncher
mkl

# specify a menu file
mkl -m <path to menu JSON file>

# set custom menu name
mkl -n <menu name>

# print the selected command to stdout instead of executing it - useful for piping to other commands
mkl -p

# specify a theme file
mkl -t <path to theme JSON file>

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