Openrc

Problem Statement:

After doing git push how many of us wanted to see the

• status of the pipeline
• new commits in github/gitlab ui
• new artifacts in the nexus repo
• wiki page of the git repo

To be generic, you want to open a particular url after an action. How can we achieve it easily ?

Solution:

Put this openrc script file in the path (so that we can invoke this from anywhere) Eg: /usr/local/bin/openrc

Note: Below script depends on git-open, fzf, ripgrep (replace rg with grep if you want)

$ cat /usr/local/bin/openrc
#!/usr/bin/env bash

gitUrl=$(git open -p)
file=".openrc"
if [ -f "$file" ]
then
	echo $gitUrl | cat $file - |rg ^http | fzf --select-1 -m | xargs -I{} open {}
else
    open $gitUrl
fi

Have a file .openrc with list of urls in your repo directory.

My usecase:

Want to see the result of jenkins pipeline after git push So, my .openrc will be like

$ cat .openrc
http://myjenkins.com/job/my-repo/job/master/

Note: Url should start with http:// or https:// so that open command opens in default browser.

So after pushed, I will do

$ openrc # which opens my jenkins pipeline url for the master branch

Why not plain git-open ?

• I used it a lot when my pipelines were in Gitlab. When we are having pipelines in different url other than git url, git-open is not very useful.

So started using this script which makes my life easily.

How the script evolved:

• Initial version:

alias openrc="cat .openrc | xargs -I{} open {}"

• Use grep/ripgrep instead of cat to remove the empty files

$ alias openrc="grep . .openrc | xargs -I{} open {}"
$ # or
$ alias openrc="rg . .openrc | xargs -I{} open {}"

• Use fzf to select from mutilple urls
  • Auto select if only one url present (–select-1 flag)
  • Select more than one url using (-m flag)

$ alias openrc="grep . .openrc | fzf --select-1 -m | xargs -I{} open {}"

• Consider only the valid urls (starts with http(s))

$ alias openrc="grep ^http .openrc | fzf --select-1 -m | xargs -I{} open {}"

• Sometimes, I have to think to between typing openrc or git open. So removing that unnecessary thinking by below thinking 😛. Appending the output of git open to .openrc so that we can always type openrc

$ alias openrc="echo \$(git open -p) | cat .openrc - |rg ^http | fzf --select-1 -m | xargs -I{} open {}"

Note: The above script will print the error message if the .openrc file is not found. But still it will open the git url in the repo. To fix this, I moved from alias to script.