Clink

[I am Baas]

Powerful Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe

http://mridgers.github.io/clink/

Dl portable version @ https://github.com/mridgers/clink/relea ... _0.4.2.zip

[Midas]

Sometime ago I tested Clink, found out it was not really portable (don't ask), and forgot it...

[Midas]

Clink v0.4.6 released (still claims portability; changelog is at http://github.com/mridgers/clink/releases).

[lintalist]

A fork, with many changes and actively developed:
https://github.com/chrisant996/clink, currently at v1.5.1

Changes https://chrisant996.github.io/clink/clink.html#changes

Portable Configuration @ https://chrisant996.github.io/clink/cli ... figuration

Here's how you can set up a portable configuration for Clink:

1. Put your Lua scripts and other tools in the same directory as the Clink executable files. For example fzf.exe, z.cmd, oh-my-posh.exe, starship.exe etc can all go in the same directory on a flash drive or network share.
2. Make a batch file such as portable.bat that injects Clink using a specific profile directory.
* On a flash drive, you can have a portable profile in a subdirectory under the Clink directory.
* On a network share, you'll want to copy some initial settings into a local profile directory (a profile directory on a network share will be slow).
3. In any cmd.exe window on any computer, you can then run the portable.bat script to inject Clink and have all your favorite settings and key bindings work.

Here are some sample scripts:

portable.bat (on a flash drive)

This sample script assumes the portable.bat script is in the Clink directory, and it uses a clink_portable profile directory under the Clink directory.

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@echo off
rem -- Do any other desired configuration here, such as loading a doskey macro file.
call "%~dp0clink.bat" inject --profile "%~dp0clink_portable" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

portable.bat (on a network share)

This sample script assumes the portable.bat script is in the Clink directory, and that there is a file portable_clink_settings with the settings you want to copy to the local profile directory.

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@echo off
if not exist "%TEMP%\clink_portable" md "%TEMP%\clink_portable" >nul
if not exist "%TEMP%\clink_portable\clink_settings" copy "%~dp0portable_clink_settings" "%TEMP%\clink_portable\clink_settings" >nul
rem -- Do any other desired configuration here, such as loading a doskey macro file.
call "%~dp0clink.bat" inject --profile "%TEMP%\clink_portable" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

[lintalist]

Now at v1.6.22 - changelog https://github.com/chrisant996/clink/bl ... er/CHANGES

[Hangar0]

.. clink with "curl --progress-bar" .. this doesn't look like it should..
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[vevy]

I think it should be moved to CLI submissions. Also, I have been using it portably for a while inject -p <profile-path>

[vevy]

.. clink with "curl --progress-bar" .. this doesn't look like it should..

This reminds me of an option in sed: -u for unbuffered output and also --newline in a certain MeCylinder fetching tool

[Andrew Lee]

Moved to "CLI Submissions" as suggested by vevy