🐑 ramda-cli

A tool for processing data with functional pipelines. In the command-line or interactively in browser.

$ npm install -g ramda-cli
$ curl -Ls https://bit.ly/gist-people-json | ramda \
  'filter (p) -> p.city?.match /Port/ or p.name.match /^Dr\./' \
  'map pick ["name", "city", "mac"]' \
  'take 3' \
  -o table --compact
┌──────────────────┬─────────────────┬───────────────────┐
│ name             │ city            │ mac               │
├──────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────┤
│ Dr. Araceli Lang │ Yvettemouth     │ 9e:ea:28:41:2a:50 │
│ Terrell Boyle    │ Port Reaganfort │ c5:32:09:5a:f7:15 │
│ Libby Renner     │ Port Reneeside  │ 9c:63:13:31:c4:ac │
└──────────────────┴─────────────────┴───────────────────┘

Or, pass in --interactive to launch in browser.

✨ highlights

• Build elegant data-processing pipelines in the command-line with Ramda's data-last API
• No new syntax to learn: Use LiveScript or JavaScript, and the functions you know from Ramda
• Use any npm module seamlessly
• Interactive mode for building pipelines iteratively with instant feedback

Table of Contents

• Interactive mode
• Examples
• JavaScript
• Options
• Evaluation context
• Configuration
• Using packages from npm
• Promises
• Debugging
• LiveScript?

Resources

• Cookbook
• Tutorial: Using ramda-cli to process and display data from GitHub API
• Essential LiveScript for ramda-cli

install

npm install -g ramda-cli

synopsis

cat data.json | ramda [function] ...

The idea is to compose functions into a pipeline of operations that when applied to given data, produces the desired output.

By default, the function is applied to a stream of JSON data read from stdin, and the output data is sent to standard out as JSON.

Technically, function should be a snippet of LiveScript (or JavaScript with --js) that evaluates into a function. If multiple function arguments are supplied as positional arguments, they are composed into a pipeline in order from left to right.

For example, the command

echo '[1,2,3]' | ramda 'filter (> 1)' 'map multiply 2' 'product'
24

is roughly equivalent in the following operation:

R.pipe(
  JSON.parse,
  R.filter(x => x > 1),
  R.map(R.multiply(2)),
  R.product,
  JSON.stringify
)('[1,2,3]') // "24"

(see R.pipe).

All Ramda's functions are available directly in the context. See http://ramdajs.com/docs/ for a full list and Evaluation context section for other functions.

interactive mode

New in v4.0

When launched with the --interactive parameter, ramda-cli opens in the browser. The pipeline, if given, is placed in an embedded code editor that emulates the prompt in command-line. As the pipeline is edited, changes to output are reflected below in the output panel.

In interactive mode, ramda-cli is generally operated the same way as on the command-line. The key benefit is being able to develop pipelines incrementally with much shorter feedback cycle.

Input is passed to interactive mode in stdin, as usual.

You may pipe stdout to other commands even when using interactive mode. When the interactive mode tab is closed, the result will printed to stdout.

copy-pasteable example

curl -Ls http://bit.ly/gist-people-json | npx ramda-cli \
  'filter (p) -> p.city is /Port/ or p.name is /^Dr\./' \
  'filter (p) -> p.email?.includes ".info"' \
  'project <[ name city mac email ]>' \
  'take 100' \
  --interactive \
  -o table --compact

examples

# Add 1 to each value in a list
echo [1,2,3] | ramda 'map add 1'
[
  2,
  3,
  4
]

# Add 1 to each value with inline ES6 lambda and take product of all
echo [1,2,3] | ramda --js 'map(x => x + 1)' product
24

Ramda functions used: add, map, product

Get a list of people whose first name starts with "B"

cat people.json | ramda 'pluck \name' 'filter (name) -> name.0 is \B)' -o raw
Brando Jacobson
Betsy Bayer
Beverly Gleichner
Beryl Lindgren

Ramda functions used: pluck, filter Data: people.json

Create a markdown TODO list

curl -s http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos |\
  ramda --raw-output \
    'filter where-eq user-id: 10' \
    'map (t) -> "- [#{t.completed && "x" || " "}] #{t.title}"' \
    'take 5' \
    'unlines'

Output

• [ ] ut cupiditate sequi aliquam fuga maiores
• [x] inventore saepe cumque et aut illum enim
• [x] omnis nulla eum aliquam distinctio
• [ ] molestias modi perferendis perspiciatis
• [ ] voluptates dignissimos sed doloribus animi quaerat aut

Ramda functions used: filter, where-eq, map

List versions of a npm module with ISO times formatted using a module from npm

npm view ramda --json | ramda --import time-ago:ta \
  'prop "time"' \
  'to-pairs' \
  'map -> version: it.0, time: ta.ago(it.1)' \
  'reverse' \
  -o table --compact
...
┌───────────────┬──────────────┐
│ version       │ time         │
├───────────────┼──────────────┤
│ 0.26.1        │ 1 month ago  │
│ 0.26.0        │ 2 months ago │
│ 0.25.0        │ 1 year ago   │
│ 0.24.1-es.rc3 │ 1 year ago   │
│ 0.24.1-es.rc2 │ 1 year ago   │
...

Search twitter for people who tweeted about ramda and pretty print the result

twarc.py --search '#ramda' | ramda --slurp -p 'map path [\user, \screen_name]' uniq

Ramda functions used: map, path

Pull response status data from Graphite and visualize

HTTP status codes per minute for last hour:

graphite -t "summarize(stats_counts.status_codes.*, '1min', 'sum', false)" -f '-1h' -o json | \
  ramda --import sparkline 'map evolve datapoints: (map head) >> sparkline \
    'sort-by prop \target' -o table

Ramda functions used: evolve, sortBy

Use --slurp to read multiple JSON objects into a single list before any operations

cat <<EOF | ramda --slurp identity
"foo bar"
"test lol"
"hello world"
EOF
[
  "foo bar",
  "test lol",
  "hello world"
]

Solution to the credit card JSON to CSV challenge using --output-type csv

#!/usr/bin/env bash

data_url=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jorinvo/7f19ce95a9a842956358/raw/e319340c2f6691f9cc8d8cc57ed532b5093e3619/data.json
curl $data_url | ramda \
  'filter where creditcard: (!= null)' `# filter out those who don't have credit card` \
  'project [\name, \creditcard]'       `# pick name and creditcard fields from all objects` \
  -o csv > `date "+%Y%m%d"`.csv        `# print output as csv to a file named as the current date`

List a project's dependencies in a table

npm ls --json | ramda 'prop \dependencies' 'map-obj prop \version' -o table --compact
┌───────────────┬────────┐
│ JSONStream    │ 1.0.4  │
│ treis         │ 2.3.9  │
│ ramda         │ 0.14.0 │
│ livescript    │ 1.4.0  │
│ cli-table     │ 0.3.1  │
└───────────────┴────────┘

Ramda functions used: filter, where, project, mapObj, prop

Generate HTML with hyperscript

cat <<EOF > shopping.txt
milk
cheese
peanuts
EOF

cat shopping.txt | ramda --import hyperscript:h \
  -rR --slurp           `# read raw input into a list` \
  'map (h \li.item, _)' `# apply <li class="item"> into each item` \
  'h \ul#list, _'       `# wrap list inside <ul id="list">` \
  '.outer-HTML'         `# finally, grab the HTML`

<ul id="list">
  <li class="item">milk</li>
  <li class="item">cheese</li>
  <li class="item">peanuts</li>
</ul>

Reason for underscores (e.g. h \ul, _) is that hyperscript API is not curried (and can't be because it's variadic). We need to explicitly state that this function is waiting for one more argument.

For more examples, see the Cookbook.

using javascript

If LiveScript is not your thing, you may write pipelines in JavaScript using the --js parameter.

echo '[1,2,3]' | ramda --js 'map(x => x + 1)'
[
  2,
  3,
  4
]

options

Usage: ramda [options] [function] ...

  -I, --interactive    run interactively in browser
  -f, --file           read a function from a js/ls file instead of args; useful for
                       larger scripts
  -c, --compact        compact output for JSON and tables
  -s, --slurp          read JSON objects from stdin as one big list
  -S, --unslurp        unwraps a list before output so that each item is formatted and
                       printed separately
  -t, --transduce      use pipeline as a transducer to transform stdin
  -P, --json-path      parse stream with JSONPath expression
  -i, --input-type     read input from stdin as (#{format-enum-list INPUT_TYPES})
  -o, --output-type    format output sent to stdout (#{format-enum-list OUTPUT_TYPES})
  -p, --pretty         pretty-printed output with colors, alias to -o pretty
  -D, --pretty-depth   set how deep objects are pretty printed
  -r, --raw-input      alias for --input-type raw
  -R, --raw-output     alias for --output-type raw
  -n, --no-stdin       don't read input from stdin
      --[no-]headers   csv/tsv has a header row
      --csv-delimiter  custom csv delimiter character
      --js             use javascript instead of livescript
      --import         import a module from npm
  -C, --configure      edit config in $EDITOR
  -v, --verbose        print debugging information (use -vv for even more)
      --version        print version
  -h, --help           displays help

-I, --interactive

Launch interactive mode in browser.

See Interactive mode.

-f, --file

Load a function pipeline from a file. Useful for scripts difficult to express in command-line.

Example

// shout.js
var R = require('ramda');
module.exports = R.pipe(R.toUpper, R.add(R.__, '!'));

echo -n '"hello world"' | ramda --file shout.js
"HELLO WORLD!"

You can overwrite command-line arguments through the script by exporting a string in property opts.

module.exports = function() { /* ... */ }
module.exports.opts = '--slurp -o table'

-c, --compact

Print compact tables and JSON output without whitespace.

When used with --output-type raw, no line breaks are added to output.

Example

seq 10 | ramda --input-type raw --output-type raw --compact identity # or -rRc
12345678910%

-s, --slurp

Read all input from stdin and wrap the data in a list before operations.

Example

cat <<EOF | ramda --slurp 'map to-upper'
"foo"
"bar"
"xyz"
EOF
[
  "FOO",
  "BAR",
  "XYZ"
]

-S, --unslurp

After the pipeline is applied to an item and if the result is an array, its items are printed separately.

Example

echo '[1,2,3]' | ramda --unslurp 'map inc'
2
3
4

-t, --transduce

Transform the input stream using the pipeline as a transducer. Requires all functions in the pipeline to be able to act as transducers.

This option essentially allows performing operations like R.map or R.filter on items as they come without waiting for the stream to complete or wrapping the input stream in a collection with --slurp.

Example

echo '1 2 2 3 3 4' | ramda --transduce drop-repeats
1
2
3
4

-P, --json-path

Parse the input stream with given JSONPath expression.

See also: JSONStream documentation

Examples

Process a huge JSON array one by one without reading the whole thing first.

* as JSON path unwraps the array and objects are passed to identity one by one.

curl -Ls http://bit.do/countries-json | ramda --json-path '*' --compact identity
{"name":"Afghanistan","code":"AF"}
{"name":"Åland Islands","code":"AX"}
{"name":"Albania","code":"AL"}
...

-i, --input-type

Parse stdin as one of these formats: raw, csv, tsv.

Examples

echo foo | ramda --input-type raw to-upper
"FOO"

$ cat <<EOF | ramda --input-type csv identity
id,name
1,Bob
2,Alice
EOF
[
  { "id": "1", "name": "Bob" },
  { "id": "2", "name": "Alice" }
]

-o, --output-type

Instead of JSON, format output as one of: pretty, raw, csv, tsv, table.

-o pretty

Print pretty output.

-o raw

With raw output type when a string value is produced, the result will be written to stdout as is without any formatting.

-o csv and -o tsv

CSV or TSV output type can be used when pipeline evaluates to an array of objects, an array of arrays or when stdin consists of a stream of bare objects. First object's keys will determine the headers.

-o table

Print nearly any type of data as a table. If used with a list of objects, uses the first object's keys as headers.

Example

curl -Ls http://bit.do/countries-json | ramda 'take 3' -o table --compact
┌───────────────┬──────┐
│ name          │ code │
├───────────────┼──────┤
│ Afghanistan   │ AF   │
│ Åland Islands │ AX   │
│ Albania       │ AL   │
└───────────────┴──────┘

-p, --pretty

Alias of --output-type pretty.

-D, --pretty-depth

When using pretty-printed output, set how deep structures are verbosely printed.

Useful when output is huge and you want to see the general structure of an object or list.

See documentation of util.inspect(object[, options])

-n, --no-stdin

Don't read stdin for input. Useful when starting a pipeline with a constant function.

Example

ramda --no-stdin 'always "hello world"' 'add __, \!'
"hello world!"

--[no-]headers

Set if input csv/tsv contains a header row.

By default, csv/tsv input is assumed to contain headers.

--csv-delimiter

Use a custom csv delimiter. Delimiter is comma by default.

Example: --csv-delimiter=';'

--js

Interpret positional arguments as JavaScript instead of LiveScript.

Example

echo '[1,2,3]' | ramda --js 'map(x => Math.pow(x, 2))'
[
  1,
  4,
  9
]

--import <package>

Install given package from npm, and make it available in the pipeline.

Symbol : combined with a name can be used to declare the variable name module should appear as. Otherwise, it is imported as camelcased name of the module.

Can be used multiple times to import more than one module.

Example

echo test | ramda -rR --import chalk:c 'c.bold'
**test**

-C, --configure

Edit ramda-cli config file in $EDITOR.

See Configuration.

evaluation context

functions

All of Ramda's functions are available, and also:

| function | signature | description | |----------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | id | a → a | Alias to R.identity | | flat | * → Object | Flatten a deep structure into a shallow object | | readFile | filePath → String | Read a file as string | | lines | String → [String] | Split a string into lines | | words | String → [String] | Split a string into words | | unlines | [String] → String | Join a list of lines into a string | | unwords | [String] → String | Join a list of words into a string | | then | Function → Promise | Map a value inside Promise | | pickDotPaths | [k] → {k: v} → {k: v} | Like R.pick but deep using dot delimited paths | | renameKeysBy | Function → {k: v} → {k: v} | Like R.map but for keys instead of values |

objects

| object | description | |-----------|-------------------------------------| | process | https://nodejs.org/api/process.html | | console | https://nodejs.org/api/console.html |

process.exit() can be used to short-circuit pipeline in case of an error, for example:

curl api | ramda 'tap (res) -> if res.error then console.error(res); process.exit(1)'

An alternative is to use Maybe type.

configuration

config file

Path: $HOME/.config/ramda-cli.{js,ls}

The purpose of a global config file is to carry functions you might find useful to have around. The functions it exports in an object are made available.

For example,

// ~/.config/ramda-cli.js
exports.date = (val) => new Date(val);
exports.timeago = require('timeago');
exports.debug = (val) => {
  console.log('debug:', val);
  return val;
};

echo 1442667243000 | ramda date debug timeago
debug: Sat Sep 19 2015 12:54:03 GMT+0000 (UTC)
"12 minutes ago"

default options

To make some options be passed by default, it is best to use a shell alias. For example:

# always interpret as javascript
alias ramda="ramda --js"
echo 1 | ramda '(x) => x + 1'
2

using packages from npm

New in v5.0: ramda-cli installs specified modules transparently from npm, manual installation is no longer required.

With the --import parameter, any module from npm can be installed and imported into the pipeline context. Invocations with a particular module will be instant once installed.

promises

Promise values are unwrapped at the end of pipeline.

then helper function can be used to map promise values.

echo 1 | ramda --js 'x => Promise.resolve(x)' 'then(add(5))'
6

echo '192.168.1.1\ngoogle.com\nyahoo.com' | \
  ramda -r --js --import ping 'ping.promise.probe' 'then(omit(["output", "numeric_host"]))' | \
  ramda --slurp -o table --compact
┌─────────────┬───────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬────────┐
│ host        │ alive │ time    │ min     │ max     │ avg     │ stddev │
├─────────────┼───────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼────────┤
│ 192.168.1.1 │ true  │ 1.325   │ 1.325   │ 1.325   │ 1.325   │ 0.000  │
│ google.com  │ true  │ 10.729  │ 10.729  │ 10.729  │ 10.729  │ 0.000  │
│ yahoo.com   │ true  │ 115.418 │ 115.418 │ 115.418 │ 115.418 │ 0.000  │
└─────────────┴───────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴────────┘

debugging

You can turn on the debug output with -v, --verbose flag. Use -vv for even more verbose output.

Verbose output shows what entered LiveScript compiled to.

To debug individual functions in the pipeline, you can use something like treis.

echo 1 | ramda --import treis 'treis(add(1))'

f1 a: 1
f1 => 2
2

livescript?

LiveScript is a language which compiles to JavaScript. It has a straightforward mapping to JavaScript and allows you to write expressive code devoid of repetitive boilerplate.

comparison table

All expressions in the table evaluate to a function, and are valid in ramda-cli.

| Ramda | LiveScript | JavaScript | |---------------------------|---------------------|---------------------------| | not | (not) | x => !x | | nth(0) | (.0) | x => x[0] | | prop('name') | (.name) | x => x.name | | add(1) | (+ 1) | x => x + 1 | | add(__, '!') | (+ '!') | x => x + '!' | | gt(__, 2) | (> 2) | x => x > 2 | | contains(__, xs) | (in xs) | x => xs.includes(x) | | pipe(length, gt(__, 2)) | (.length > 2) | x => x.length > 2 | | isNil | (~= null) | x => x == null | | complement(isNil) | (!~= null) | x => x != null | | match(/foo/) | (is /foo/) | x => x.match(/foo/) | | replace('a', '') | (- 'a') | x => x.replace('a', '') | | join(',') | (* ',') | x => x.join(',') | | split(',') | (/ ',') | x => x.split(',') | | toUpper | (.to-upper-case!) | x => x.toUpperCase() |

See also: Essential LiveScript for ramda-cli

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