Appcove Developer Software

This custom Debian PPA is used by AppCove to build and share all the in-house built power tools

📥 Installation

Install curl and gpg as pre-requisites:

sudo apt install -y curl gpg

Skip this step if this is your first time installing any ads-* software. Otherwise, you'll need to uninstall any packages you had installed previously. This is to avoid conflicts with recently renamed packages, as they'd point to the same file path as old packages:

sudo apt remove ads-everything ads-release

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Download appcove-developer-software.list and add to your package sources, then download and install the necessary GPG key to verify packages.

sudo curl -s --compressed -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/appcove-developer-software.list "https://appcove.github.io/developer-software/ubuntu/dists/stable/appcove-developer-software.list"

curl -s --compressed "https://appcove.github.io/developer-software/ubuntu/KEY.gpg" | sudo gpg --batch --yes --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/appcove-developer-software.gpg

sudo apt update

Log out and log back in for any system changes to be applied, then install any tools you need:

sudo apt install git-excess

To install everything:

sudo apt install ads-everything

📤 Package uninstallation and Repository Removal

Simply invoke apt to remove any un-needed packages. To remove the repository, execute the following commands"

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/appcove-developer-software.list /usr/share/keyrings/appcove-developer-software.gpg

To remove everything:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ads-everything

📃 List of available Packages after installation

sudo apt list "ads-*"

Should output

• [ads-everything] - Meta-package that adds /opt/ads/bin to $PATH and installs all other ads-* packages as dependencies.
• ads-git-excess: Extra git tooling, developer by Appcove.
• ads-pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
• ads-fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
• ads-bat: A cat clone with wings.
• ads-procs - Replacement for ps written in Rust.
• ads-grex - An intuitive regex generator meant to create expression based on user's input.
• ads-broot - Navigate directories and list content in a tree, with a lot of additional features.
• ads-exa - Modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls.
• ads-sd - An intuitive find & replace CLI.
• ads-dust - Dust is a more intuitive version of du, used for displaying disk usage statistics.
• ads-ripgrep - ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.
• ads-bottom - A customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
• ads-jaq - A jq clone focussed on correctness, speed, and simplicity
• ads-et - A modern, vibrant, and multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer
• ads-delta - Modern CLI git diff analizer (requires manual setup LOOK BELOW)

Examples

fd

bat

bat src/*.rs # show multiple files at once
bat header.md content.md footer.md > document.md
bat -n main.rs  # show line numbers (only)

procs

procs # list all processes
procs <executable>  # `procs chrome` list all processes of application
procs --tree

Other examples of procs

broot

broot examples

sd

• Simpler syntax for replacing all occurrences:
  • sd: sd before after
  • sed: sed s/before/after/g
• Replace newlines with commas:
  • sd: sd '\n' ','
  • sed: sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/,/g'
• Extracting stuff out of strings containing slashes:
  • sd: echo "sample with /path/" | sd '.*(/.*/)' '$1'
  • sed: use different delimiters every time depending on expression so that the command is not completely unreadable
    • echo "sample with /path/" | sed -E 's/.*(\\/.*\\/)/\1/g'
    • echo "sample with /path/" | sed -E 's|.*(/.*/)|\1|g'
• In place modification of files:
  • sd: sd before after file.txt
  • sd:: you need to remember to use -e or else some platforms will consider the next argument to be a backup suffix
    • sed -i -e 's/before/after/g' file.txt

dust

Usage: dust
Usage: dust <dir>
Usage: dust <dir>  <another_dir> <and_more>
Usage: dust -p (full-path - Show fullpath of the subdirectories)
Usage: dust -s (apparent-size - shows the length of the file as opposed to the amount of disk space it uses)
Usage: dust -n 30  (Shows 30 directories instead of the default [default is terminal height])
Usage: dust -d 3  (Shows 3 levels of subdirectories)
Usage: dust -D (Show only directories (eg dust -D))
Usage: dust -r (reverse order of output)
Usage: dust -H (si print sizes in powers of 1000 instead of 1024)
Usage: dust -X ignore  (ignore all files and directories with the name 'ignore')
Usage: dust -x (Only show directories on the same filesystem)
Usage: dust -b (Do not show percentages or draw ASCII bars)
Usage: dust -i (Do not show hidden files)
Usage: dust -c (No colors [monochrome])
Usage: dust -f (Count files instead of diskspace)
Usage: dust -t (Group by filetype)
Usage: dust -z 10M (min-size, Only include files larger than 10M)
Usage: dust -e regex (Only include files matching this regex (eg dust -e "\.png$" would match png files))
Usage: dust -v regex (Exclude files matching this regex (eg dust -v "\.png$" would ignore png files))

delta

Install it and then add this to your `~/.gitconfig`:

[core]
    pager = delta

[interactive]
    diffFilter = delta --color-only

[delta]
    navigate = true    # use n and N to move between diff sections
    light = false      # set to true if you're in a terminal w/ a light background color (e.g. the default macOS terminal)

[merge]
    conflictstyle = diff3

[diff]
    colorMoved = default