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% Ask - community-based command line kofu master at hand
% Steven & Kuno
% Oct 27, 2012

# Frustrating Command Line Kofu Searching Experience
- Step 1: need some commands
- Step 2: google / duckduckgo / wiki to find the some probably broken command
- Step 3: copy and paste the command line
- Step 4: tweak the command until it work, otherwise go back to step 2
- Forget it.

# What We Want To Archieve
- Query for knowledge right from your terminal
- Accumulate your knowledge along the time
- Leverage the knowledge in the community, such as commandlinefu.com

# what we've accomplished
https://github.com/yangchenyun/ask/commits/master

# the Cli interface - query
remote request goes to commandlinefu.com

    bin/ask query wget (--remote)
    bin/ask query ssh sort uniq
    bin/ask query wget (--local)

# informative error messaging
    bin/ask help

    bin/ask exec <number>
    bin/ask exec abd123
    bin/ask exec 

    bin/ask add 'ls -al | grep awesome'

# colored output with ANSI color support
    bin/ask query 'awk netcat'

# Coming Next
- implement all interfaces including `ask add`, `ask exec <id>`, `ask query 'grep' --local`
- use your `$EDITOR` to add commands
- a web interface to browser, search commands

# What I need
- A Web Server
- what do you want?