comrade

A generic and configurable command executor.

Installation

pip install comrade

Configuration

Run comrade once to copy the sample config into the current user's home directoy.

Then you can edit and extend ~/comrade-config.json to your liking.

Example

Here is a bare-bones comrade-config.json that uses ffmpeg to transcode a file, and then print "success" to the command line.

{
    "choices": [
        {
          "name": "example command",
          "commands": [
              "ffmpeg -i {input filename} -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 {output filename}",
              "echo success"
          ]
        }
    ]
}

The above produces this user experience:

Comrade

Choose a command to execute.

1. example command
2. Exit

>>> 1

Once the user chooses which command to execute, it starts asking the user to populate the {variables} from the config.

Requesting variables for command:
ffmpeg -i {input filename} -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 {output filename}

Set input filename: file.avi
Set output filename: file.mp4

It then shows the user what the compiled commands look like.

Comrade

Commands to execute:

ffmpeg -i file.avi -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 file.mp4
echo success


1. Execute
2. Cancel

>>> 1

and then the commands run, using the user's input.