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简单的命令行片段管理器

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简单的命令行片段管理器

Pet - CLI Snippet Manager

Motivation

pet is a simple command-line snippet manager (inspired by memo).

I have a hard time remembering complex command or ones that I rarely use. Moreover, it is difficult to find them in shell history.

It's time to let go of the expectation of remembering every command, and focus on productivity and finding the right commands as fast as possible. It's fun when you're 2 years in and work with 2 tools, but less so when you're a decade in and work across backend/frontend/infrastructure with tons of tools. You most probably relate to this if you're a developer.

pet is a simple tool that allows you to save, tag, search, and execute command-line snippets easily! It's now nearly 8 years old and is used by many developers around the world.

pet is written in Go, and therefore you can just grab the binary releases and drop it in your $PATH.

You can use variables (<param> or <param=default_value> ) in snippets.

TOC

  • Main features
  • Parameters
  • Examples
    • Register the previous command easily
      • bash
      • zsh
      • fish
    • Select snippets at the current line (like C-r) (RECOMMENDED)
      • bash
      • zsh
      • fish
    • Copy snippets to clipboard
  • Features
    • Edit snippets
    • Sync snippets
  • Hands-on Tutorial
  • Usage
  • Snippet
  • Configuration
    • Selector option
    • Tag
    • Sync
    • Auto Sync
  • Installation
    • Binary
    • macOS / Homebrew
    • RedHat, CentOS
    • Debian, Ubuntu
    • Archlinux
    • Build
  • Migration
  • Contribute

Main features

pet has the following features.

  • Register your command snippets easily.
  • Use variables (with one or several default values) in snippets.
  • Search snippets interactively
  • Run snippets directly.
  • Edit snippets easily (config is just a TOML file).
  • Sync snippets via Gist or GitLab Snippets automatically.

Creating a snippet

You can create a snippet by running pet new.

$ pet new
Command> echo Hello world!
Description> print Hello world

To see all available arguments, run pet new --help.

Multiline commands can be entered by using the multiline argument pet new --multiline

You can use also use variables in snippets, these are called parameters. More information on that in the next section.

You can also tag snippets to search for them faster. More information on that in the tag section.

Parameters

There are <n_ways> ways of entering parameters.

They can contain default values: Hello <subject=world> defined by the equal sign.

They can even contain <content=spaces & = signs> where the default value would be <content=spaces & = signs>.

Default values just can't <end with spaces >.

They can also contain multiple default values: Hello <subject=|_John_||_Sam_||_Jane Doe = special #chars_|>

The values in this case would be :Hello <subject=|_John_||_Sam_||_Jane Doe = special #chars_|>

Examples

Some examples are shown below.

Register the previous command easily

By adding the following config to .bashrc or .zshrc, you can easily register the previous command.

bash prev function

function prev() {
  PREV=$(echo `history | tail -n2 | head -n1` | sed 's/[0-9]* //')
  sh -c "pet new `printf %q "$PREV"`"
}

zsh prev function

cat .zshrc
function prev() {
  PREV=$(fc -lrn | head -n 1)
  sh -c "pet new `printf %q "$PREV"`"
}

fish

See below for details.
https://github.com/otms61/fish-pet

Select snippets at the current line (like C-r) (RECOMMENDED)

bash

By adding the following config to .bashrc, you can search snippets and output on the shell. This will also allow you to execute the commands yourself, which will add them to your shell history! This is basically the only way we can manipulate shell history. This also allows you to chain commands! Example here

You can also customize the search and list commands with options, example -t or --tags, for example to only search the subset of snippets tagged with myjob pet search -t myjob.

cat .bashrc
function pet-select() {
  BUFFER=$(pet search --query "$READLINE_LINE")
  READLINE_LINE=$BUFFER
  READLINE_POINT=${#BUFFER}
}
bind -x '"\C-x\C-r": pet-select'

zsh

cat .zshrc
function pet-select() {
  BUFFER=$(pet search --query "$LBUFFER")
  CURSOR=$#BUFFER
  zle redisplay
}
zle -N pet-select
stty -ixon
bindkey '^s' pet-select

fish

See below for details.
https://github.com/otms61/fish-pet

Expand snippet parameters inline on shell

You can expand parameters using the shell instead of the builtin TUI dialog. This allows you to edit the parameters with native shell features, like tab-completion, highlighting, etc.

bash

…

zsh

…

Copy snippets to clipboard

By using pbcopy on macOS, you can copy snippets to clipboard.

Allow to register from history when using fzf

Just export this to your .bashrc or .zshrc file. This will show your history as default (when using fzf) and it also binds the alt+s key combination to allow you to search and save some previous used command command.

export FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS="
  --reverse
  --cycle
  --info=right
  --color header:italic
  --header 'alt+s (pet new)'
  --preview 'echo {}' --preview-window down:3:hidden:wrap 
  --bind '?:toggle-preview'
  --bind 'alt-s:execute(pet new --tag {2..})+abort'"

Features

Edit snippets

The snippets are managed in the TOML file, so it's easy to edit.

Sync snippets

You can share snippets via Gist.

Usage

…

Snippet

Run pet edit
You can also register the output of command (but cannot search).

[[snippets]]
  command = "echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 2>/dev/null |openssl x509 -dates -noout"
  description = "Show expiration date of SSL certificate"
  output = """
notBefore=Nov  3 00:00:00 2015 GMT
notAfter=Nov 28 12:00:00 2018 GMT"""

Run pet list

    Command: echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 2>/dev/null |openssl x509 -dates -noout
Description: Show expiration date of SSL certificate
     Output: notBefore=Nov  3 00:00:00 2015 GMT
             notAfter=Nov 28 12:00:00 2018 GMT
------------------------------

Configuration

Run pet configure

…

Multi directory and multi file setup

Directories must be specified as an array. All toml files will be scraped and found snippets will be added.

Example1: single directory

[GHEGist]
  base_url = ""                   # GHE base URL
  upload_url = ""                 # GHE upload URL (often the same as the base URL)
  file_name = "pet-snippet.toml"  # specify gist file name
  access_token = ""               # your access token
  gist_id = ""                    # Gist ID
  public = false                  # public or priate
  auto_sync = false               # sync automatically when editing snippets
$ pet configure
[General]
...
  snippetdirs = ["/path/to/some/snippets/"]
...

Example2: multiple directories

$ pet configure
[General]
...
  snippetdirs = ["/path/to/some/snippets/", "/more/snippets/"]
...

If snippetfile setting is omitted, new snippets will be added in a separate file to the first directory. The generated filename is time based.

Snippet files in snippetdirs will not be added to Gist or GitLab. You've to do version control manually.

Selector option

Example1: Change layout (bottom up)

pet configure
[General]
...
  selectcmd = "fzf"
...

Example2: Enable colorized output

pet configure
[General]
...
  selectcmd = "fzf --ansi"
...
pet search --color

Tag

You can use tags (delimiter: space).

pet new -t
Command> ping 8.8.8.8
Description> ping
Tag> network google

Or edit manually.

pet edit
[[snippets]]
  description = "ping"
  command = "ping 8.8.8.8"
  tag = ["network", "google"]
  output = ""

They are displayed with snippets.

pet search
[ping]: ping 8.8.8.8 #network #google

You can exec snippet with filtering the tag

pet exec -t google

[ping]: ping 8.8.8.8 #network #google

Sync

Gist

You must obtain access token. Go https://github.com/settings/tokens/new and create access token (only need "gist" scope). Set that to access_token in [Gist] or use an environment variable with the name $PET_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN.

After setting, you can upload snippets to Gist.
If gist_id is not set, new gist will be created.

pet sync
Gist ID: 1cedddf4e06d1170bf0c5612fb31a758
Upload success

Set Gist ID to gist_id in [Gist]. pet sync compares the local file and gist with the update date and automatically download or upload.

If the local file is older than gist, pet sync download snippets.

pet sync
Download success

If gist is older than the local file, pet sync upload snippets.

pet sync
Upload success

Note: -u option is deprecated

GHE Gist

To use Gist with GitHub Enterprise, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Obtain an Access Token: Visit your GitHub Enterprise settings page to create a new access token with just the "gist" scope. This is necessary to authenticate and interact with the Gist API on GitHub Enterprise.
  2. Set the Access Token: Assign the newly created access token to access_token in the [GHEGist] section of your configuration. Alternatively, you can use an environment variable named $PET_GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_ACCESS_TOKEN to manage your token securely.
  3. Configure API Endpoints: Unlike the regular Gist config, you need to set base_url and upload_url to point to your GitHub Enterprise API endpoints. For example:

[GHEGist]
base_url = "https://github-enterprise.example.com/api/v3/gists"
upload_url = "https://github-enterprise.example.com/api/v3/gists"  # Often the same as the base URL

By setting these parameters, your tool will be configured to interact with GitHub Enterprise Gist, enabling you to sync and manage your snippets just as you would with the standard GitHub Gist service.

Remember to replace https://github-enterprise.example.com with the actual URL of your GitHub Enterprise instance. This customization allows your tool to correctly connect to and use the Gist service in a GitHub Enterprise environment.

GitLab Snippets

You must obtain access token. Go https://gitlab.com/-/profile/personal_access_tokens and create access token. Set that to access_token in [GitLab] or use an environment variable with the name $PET_GITLAB_ACCESS_TOKEN.

You also have to configure the url under [GitLab], so pet knows which endpoint to access. You would use url = "https://gitlab.com"unless you have another instance of Gitlab.

At last, switch the backend under [General] to backend = "gitlab".

After setting, you can upload snippets to GitLab Snippets. If id is not set, new snippet will be created.

pet sync
GitLab Snippet ID: 12345678
Upload success

Set GitLab Snippet ID to id in [GitLab]. pet sync compares the local file and gitlab with the update date and automatically download or upload.

If the local file is older than gitlab, pet sync download snippets.

pet sync
Download success

If gitlab is older than the local file, pet sync upload snippets.

pet sync
Upload success

Auto Sync

You can sync snippets automatically. Set true to auto_sync in `[Gist]

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核心特点

  • •Main features
  • •Parameters
  • •Examples
  • •Register the previous command easily
  • •Select snippets at the current line (like C-r) (RECOMMENDED)
  • •Copy snippets to clipboard
  • •Features
  • •Edit snippets
  • •Sync snippets
  • •Hands-on Tutorial

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发布日期2026年8月1日
最后更新2026年9月17日
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