cook

cook

With this program, you can keep recipes in the form of Markdown files, render recipes to the command line, and search through arbitrary user-defined fields in the front matter, such as tags: [vegetarian, spicy] or ingredients: [salmon].

This program was inspired by Jason A. Donenfeld's pass.

Installation

Homebrew:

1. Install:

    brew install ysim/cook/cook
   

2. Add the following line to your .bashrc to enable bash completion:

    source /usr/local/opt/pass/etc/bash_completion.d/cook
   

Download the binary:

1. Go to the releases page: https://github.com/ysim/cook/releases

2. Download the correct binary for your OS/arch and untar it somewhere on your $PATH.

3. To enable bash completion, either download and uncompress or clone the source code of a release. Go into the directory, then run:

    make install-bash-completion
   

   Then source ~/.bash_completion in one of your startup files, like ~/.bashrc:

    if [[ -f ~/.bash_completion ]] ; then
        source ~/.bash_completion
    fi
   

   To check that the completion is working, source this file, then run:

    complete -p | grep cook
   

   You should get the output:

    complete -F _cook cook
   

Build from source:

1. Clone this repo.

2. Download and install Go.

3. Download and install dep.

4. Run dep ensure to populate vendor/ with dependencies.

5. Build the binary:

    make build GOOS=... GOARCH=...
   

   Possible values for $GOOS: android darwin dragonfly freebsd linux nacl netbsd openbsd plan9 solaris windows zos
   Possible values for $GOARCH: 386 amd64 amd64p32 arm armbe arm64 arm64be ppc64 ppc64le mips mipsle mips64 mips64le mips64p32 mips64p32le ppc s390 s390x sparc sparc64

   List of valid combinations of $GOOS and $GOARCH: https://golang.org/doc/install/source#environment

6. Follow the above instructions for bash completion.

Usage

Create/port recipe files

In a directory at $HOME/.recipes, create some recipes files with the .md (Markdown) extension, and with YAML front matter block. The file contents should look something like this:

    ---
    name: roasted cauliflower soup
    tags: [soup, vegetarian]
    ingredients: [cauliflower]
    ---
    # roasted cauliflower soup

    ## INGREDIENTS

    * 1 cauliflower, cut into florets
    * ...rest of ingredients...

    ## INSTRUCTIONS

    1. Step one

    1. Step two

    1. ...rest of the steps...

View a recipe

cook [recipe name] [-meta]

This will print the recipe to the screen with some light styling.

The -meta flag will print the recipe's front matter.

Create a new recipe

cook new -filename=beer-bread -f='tags=[baking,bread]' -f='ingredients=[flour,yeast]'

This will create a recipe file at ${COOK_RECIPES_DIR}/beer-bread${COOK_RECIPES_EXTENSION} with the given attributes and open it for editing by default.

Only the -filename flag is mandatory; the rest can be omitted and subsequently filled in while editing:

$ cook new -filename=dandan-noodles

...new file opened in $EDITOR...

---
name:
---
#

## INGREDIENTS

## INSTRUCTIONS

---
Source:

List unique values for a key

cook list -key=tags

This will list, in alphabetical order, all the unique values for the tags key as defined in the recipe files' YAML front matter blocks.

List keys

cook list

This will list, in alphabetical order, all the unique keys defined in the YAML front matter blocks.

Validate the formatting of your recipe files

cook validate

If you see any errors parsing files while using cook, you can run this command to validate the formatting of your recipe files. This will walk through $COOK_RECIPES_DIR and list the files with formatting that cannot be parsed by cook, along with a reason.

cook validate [recipe name]

You can also validate a single file. Bash completion is available for this option.

Searching

The following search syntaxes are supported:

• cook search tags:soup: show all recipes with the tag soup
• cook search tags:soup,stew: show all recipes with the tag soup OR stew
• cook search tags:soup+vegetarian: show all recipes with the tag soup AND vegetarian

Note that values with a space in them must either be quoted or escaped:

❌ cook search tags:comfort food
✅ cook search 'tags:comfort food'
✅ cook search tags:'comfort food'
✅ cook search tags:comfort\ food

Edit a recipe

cook edit [recipe name]

This will open the recipe in a text editor.

Customizations

Here are a few environment variables that can be set to override the default settings: