wax === NAME ---- wax - webify your CLI SYNOPSIS -------- wax [OPTIONS] program [OPTIONS] ... e.g.: $ wax vim -R https://registry.npmjs.org/left-pad/-/left-pad-1.2.0.tgz runs: $ vim -R /tmp/wax_abcd1234.tgz DESCRIPTION ----------- wax is a command-line program which runs other command-line programs and converts their URL arguments to local file paths. By default, the files are removed after the command has exited. As well as adding transparent support for remote resources to commands that don't support them natively, wax can be used to: - add support for HTTPS (and any other protocols supported by LWP) to programs that only support HTTP - add a mirroring layer to network requests (remote resources are only fetched if they've been updated) - add a caching layer to network requests (remote resources are only fetched once) For more details, see the wax man page. INSTALLATION ------------ INSTALL Install cpanminus if it's not already installed, then: cpanm App::Wax UPDATE cpanm App::Wax UNINSTALL cpanm --uninstall App::Wax EXAMPLES -------- espeak: $ alias espeak="wax espeak" $ espeak -f http://www.setec.org/mel.txt grep: $ wax grep -B1 demons http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.txt jsview: Browse files in Node module tarballs #!/bin/sh # usage: jsview e.g. jsview left-pad wax --cache view $(npm info --json "$@" | jq -r .dist.tarball) nman: Node.js man-page viewer #!/bin/sh node_version=${NODE_VERSION:-`node --version`} docroot="https://cdn.rawgit.com/nodejs/node/$node_version/doc/api" wax --cache -D pandoc --standalone --from markdown --to man "$docroot/$1.md" | man -l - VERSION ------- 2.1.0 SEE ALSO -------- - rlwrap - sshfs - zsh completion script AUTHOR ------ chocolateboy (chocolate@cpan.org) COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE --------------------- Copyright (C) 2010-2018 by chocolateboy This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.