bookmarkr 1.0.0

Bookmarkr

Bookmarkr is a bookmark manager provided as a CLI application. It has been developed in .NET as an example for the book "Building CLI applications with .NET" by Tidjani Belmansour, published by Packt Publishing.

Getting started

Bookmarkr is provided as a .NET Tool and can be installed using this command:

dotnet tool install --global bookrmarkr

Once installed, it can be run by invoking:

bookmarkr

Commands

Here are some examples of the available commands:

* dotnet run => "Hello from the root command!"
* dotnet run hello => "Unrecognized command or argument 'hello'."
* dotnet run -- --version => 2.0.0
* dotnet run -- --help | dotnet run -- -h | dotnet run -- -? => help menu for the CLI application.
* dotnet run -- link --help | dotnet run -- link -h | dotnet run -- link -? => help menu for the link command.
* dotnet run -- link add --help | dotnet run -- link add -h | dotnet run -- link add -? => help menu for the link command.
* dotnet run link add --name 'Packt Publishing' --url 'https://packtpub.com/' --category 'Tech books' => "Bookmark successfully added!"
* dotnet run link add -n 'Packt Publishing' -u 'https://www.packtpub.com' -c 'Tech books' => "Bookmark successfully added!"
* dotnet run link add --name 'Packt Publishing' --url 'https://packtpub.com/' --name 'A great tech book publisher' => the second name will override the first name.
* dotnet run link add --name 'Packt Publishing' --url 'https://packtpub.com/' --category 'Tech books' --name 'Audi cars' --url 'https://audi.ca' --category 'Read later' => adding two bookmarks with a single CLI request.
* dotnet run link add --name 'Packt Publishing' 'Audi cars' --url 'https://packtpub.com/' 'https://audi.ca' --category 'Tech books' 'Read later' => an equivalent syntax.
* dotnet run export --file 'bookmarks.json' => exports all the bookmarks held by the application into the specified output JSON file.
* dotnet run import --file 'bookmarks.json' => imports all the bookmarks found in the input JSON file into the application.
* dotnet run -- interactive => runs the interactive version of the application.
* dotnet run sync => calls the web service to sync the local bookmarks with the ones stored in the remote location.