Shell Commands

Execute any shell command and insert its output at your cursor position

🧩 Plugins used:

• Shell Commands (install via Community Plugins: Shell Commands)

Steps (to get the URL)

1. Open the Shell Commands plugin settings.
2. Click New shell command to add a command.
   • For python scripts, make sure your path to the python binary is absolute (on my system it's at /opt/homebrew/bin/python3).
3. Click the gear (⚙️) icon for each command, and adjust these settings:
   • In the General tab, set an Alias for the command (e.g., "tasks_today"). You will be able to execute this from a slash command.
   • In the Output tab, change Output channel for stdout to Current file: caret position.
4. Copy the command's URI (using the link (🔗) icon under each command).

Examples

Since you can execute any shell command, Python script, PHP script, etc. using this plugin, you can take advantage of a number of other projects available, including:

• Calendar events (today, tomorrow), via icalBuddy
• Git activity (commits, PRs) via gitactivity2md
• Things3 tasks (todo, completed) via things2md

Need help? 🛟

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