⚡ Never open your browser to look for help again ⚡
Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for how to do basic programming tasks?
Suppose you want to know how to format a date in bash. Why open your browser and read through blogs (risking major distraction) when you can simply stay in Alfred and ask:
$ howdoi properly use tar command
> tar -czf /tmp/workspace.tar.gz .
- Make sure howdoi is installed on your machine with
brew install howdoi. - Install [howdoi for Alfred](the https://alfred.app/workflows/gleitz/howdoi/) from the Alfred Gallery.
Invoke the Alfred workflow with the keyword Question Keyword (default: howdoi) and then your query. The output will be shown as large type and also copied to the clipboard. Use ⌘↩ to open the answer's web page instead.
New to howdoi? You can get started by running:
howdoi howdoi
If howdoi is installed to a non-standard Homebrew location (or with pip) then you need to tell Alfred about your appropriate PATH.
- Open the Workflow in Alfred
- Click "prepare workflow configuration" in the top right (the icon looks like
(x)) - Select the "Environment Variables" tab
- Make a new entry with name
PATHand value as the text output of enteringecho $PATHin a terminal (e.g./usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/username/.homebrew/bin)
- howdoi github page