Idea: --rexec "shell command" option

[simonw]

Inspired by:

symbex fetch_articles -n \
  | llm --system 'add type hints' \
  | symbex fetch_articles --replace

Would be nice if you didn't have to do the -n and the pipes and the duplicate call to symbex there. How about this instead?

symbex fetch_articles --rexec "llm --system 'add type hints'"

Where --rexec stands for "replace with execution".

[simonw]

Prototyped in a branch.

[simonw]

I was hoping this would work, to avoid having to put single quotes inside double quotes:

symbex is_subpath --rexec -- llm --system 'add type hints and comments' -m 4

But that's not what -- does, apparently. I get this error:

Usage: symbex [OPTIONS] [SYMBOLS]...
Try 'symbex --help' for help.

Error: No such option: --system Did you mean --sys-path?

[simonw]

--replace already implements a rule that it will only work if there is just a single match:

symbex/symbex/cli.py

Lines 436 to 443 in 2b102a9

	if replace:
	# Only works if we got a single match
	if len(replace_matches) != 1:
	raise click.ClickException(
	"--replace only works with a single match, got {}".format(
	len(replace_matches)
	)
	)