SOS (StackOverflow Search)

sos is a command line tool for quickly searching error messages on StackOverflow. It parses the output of a given command for error messages, and displays the link to relevant posts on StackOverflow.

Install

Run

make
make install

This will install sos into /usr/local/bin, and create a .sosrc file in your home directory.

Usage

Run sos <command> (eg. sos "python tests/divide_by_zero.py") to detect error messages in the output of <command>. The ~/.sosrc file contains the regex patterns that are used to identify error messages. NOTE: each regex pattern must contain exactly one capture group.

Run sos -o <command> to automatically open the StackOverflow links in your default browser.

Example

Dev

Run make to build binary, make DEBUG=1 to build with debug statements, make clean to remove build files.

Todo

• Parse stdout and stderr for error messages
• Display StackOverflow link for error messages
• Open StackOverflow links automatically in browser
• Read regex from .sosrc file
• Add custom config file option
• Refactor
• Include tags in search
• Show search query
• Add examples
• Add tests
• Distribute somehow
• Support interactive commands like python interpreter (need to unbuffer pseudoterminal)