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Install ‘Keep’ On Linux

The easiest and official way to install ‘Keep’ is by using PIP. Pip is a package manager that allows you to install applications written using Python programming language.

Pip can be installed on Arch Linux and its derivatives as shown below:

$ sudo pacman -S python-pip

On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

On RHEL, Fedora, CentOS:

Enable EPEL repository first.

$ sudo yum install epel-release

Or,

$ sudo dnf install epel-release

Then, install pip using command:

$ sudo yum install python-pip

Or,

$ sudo dnf install python-pip

On SUSE/openSUSE:

$ sudo zypper install python-pip

Once pip installed, run the following command to install ‘Keep’. The following command is same for all Linux distributions!

$ sudo pip install keep

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Save Commands In Terminal And Use Them On Demand Using ‘Keep’ Utility

‘Keep’ usage is very simple. The typical syntax of ‘keep’ utility is:

$ keep [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

It’s time to see some practical examples. Look at the following command.

find -iname '*.txt' -exec cp {} /home/sk/Downloads/ \;

This command will find and copy all files that ends with extension .txt. and save them in /home/sk/Downloads/ directory. I have very poor memory. After a few  weeks or months, I couldn’t remember this command. I bet some of you can’t remember this kind of lengthy commands after some time.

So, what I am going to do is just save this command in my Terminal using ‘keep’ utility.

First, we need to initialize the ‘keep’ environment.

To do so, run:

$ keep init

The above command will ask you to enter your Email. It is the unique username to you.  You can input anything unique to you. You can choose to not register this time and later start the process by using keep register command. You can use Keep CLI without registering if you do not intend to use the server for storing or fetching your commands. It generates a 255 bit password for you. It is then stored inside your ~/.keep/.credentials file.

Sample output would be:

Initializing environment in ~/.keep directory
...OK
Proceed to register? [Y/n]: y
Your credentials will be saved in the ~/.keep directory.
Email: admin@ostechnix.com
Repeat for confirmation: admin@ostechnix.com
Verifying with existing users...
Generated password for admin@ostechnix.com
Registering new user ...
User successfully registered !
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Credentials file saved at ~/.keep/.credentials.json

Save a new command

To save a new command, just run:

$ keep new

Enter the full command you’d like to save and hit ENTER. Then, provide the description of the command and press ENTER key.

Sample output:

Command: find -iname '*.txt' -exec cp {} /home/sk/Downloads/ \;
Description : find and copy all files that ends with extension .txt

Now, the command has been saved. Similarly, you can save any number of commands using ‘keep new’ command.

View the saved commands

To view all saved commands, just run:

$ keep list

This command will display the list of saved commands with description.

Sample output:

Command Description
-------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------
$ find -iname '*.txt' -exec cp {} /home/sk/Downloads/ \; find and copy all files that ends with extension .txt

Search for the saved commands

You can search any saved commands with its description. You don’t have to specify the complete description. Look at the following example.

$ keep grep "find and copy"

You will see saved commands matching to the search term. I got the following command for the above command.

$ find -iname '*.txt' -exec cp {} /home/sk/Downloads/ \; :: find and copy all files that ends with extension .txt

Execute the saved commands

To execute the saved commands at any time, simply run with saved command’s description as shown below:

$ keep run "find and copy"

You will be asked whether to execute or not the command. Just press ‘Y’ to run the command:

Execute

find -iname '*.txt' -exec cp {} /home/sk/Downloads/ \;

? [Y/n]: y

Sync Saved commands with another system

If you have got another system, install ‘keep’ on it as I described in the “Install Keep” section. Then, run “keep init” (without quotes, of course) command and skip registration. Copy your ~/.keep/.credentials file over to the target computer in the same location. Finally, run the following command to retrieve all the saved commands.

$ keep pull

To store the commands on the remote server, use ‘keep push’ command.

Delete saved commands

To delete a saved command, simply run:

$ keep rm

Enter the command to remove and hit ENTER. The specified command will deleted from the Keep cache.

Command to remove: find -iname '*.txt' -exec cp {} /home/sk/Downloads/ \;
Command successfully removed!

For more details, run:

$ keep --help