kdb-find-tools(1) -- The tool for finding tools

kdb find-tools [-h] [–warnings] [–good] [–alltags] [-a AUTHOR] [-d DATE] [-t TAGS [TAGS ...]] [-b BRIEF] [-e EXECUTE]

DESCRIPTION

If you are looking for a tool, then you have found the right tool to find tools! kdb find-tools provides a search and list functionality for tools.

Just enter kdb find-tools to get a list of names, type and short description of all available tools.

If you are looking for something special, then there are two ways:

1. Tag Search: Type kdb find-tools --alltags to get a list of all Tags in use. Then you can search with kdb -t [TAGS [TAGS ...]]
2. Full Text Search:
   • kdb find-tools -b BRIEF to search for a short text.
   • kdb find-tools -a AUTHOR to search for a author.
   • kdb find-tools -d DATE to search for a creation date.
   • kdb find-tools -e EXECUTE to search for a type.

All methods can be combined. For example if you search all bash scripts which do some configuration work. You can type kdb find-tools -t configuration -e bash.

The right Way to add your script to the find tools

Meta Tags as comments in the beginning of a script are parsed. Mate Tags start with an @, here is a list of all Meta Tags:

MetaTag	Meaning
@author	Names and Emails (in <>) of the Authors as comma separated list
@brief	A Short Description (One Line!)
@tags	Comma Separated List of Tags, there is a list of common tags below
@date	Date when the script was created, use DD.MM.YYYY as format

Do not mind the '\' at the beginning it is a doxygen escaping.

Beware, that these metatags should be applied at the beginning of the file (in the first 10 rows)!

Tags

List of Common Tags:

@tags	Description
configure	This script is used for the build configuration
convert	This script is used convert things
generator	This script is a generator
creator	This script creates things
env	This script does some env stuff
mount	This script mounts things
reformat	This script reformats things
debian	Special script for debian system

If you choose to add a tag to the @tags then do not forget to add it in the tags map of the find-tools script and in the table here.

Example

        <Start of File>
        #!/usr/bin/bash
        #
        # @author Kurt Micheli <kurt.micheli@libelektra.org>
        # @brief This is a example
        # @date 01.06.2016
        # @tags configure, creator, arch

Notes

The Metatag System of Epydoc is used (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/manual-fields.html#module-metadata-variables) and extended with special tags.