sandwatch: record historical command runtimes for later prediction

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track historical runtimes for this directory and command, predict if there's time for a sandwich on this run


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Versions [RSS] 0.1.1.0
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Dependencies aeson (>=1.4.7.1 && <2.2), atomic-write (>=0.2.0 && <0.3), base (>=4.14 && <4.20), bytestring (>=0.11 && <0.12), criterion-measurement (>=0.2 && <0.3), directory (>=1.3 && <1.5), process (>=1.6 && <1.7), sandwatch, text (>=2.0 && <2.1), time (>=1.12 && <1.13) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Shae Erisson
Maintainer shae@scannedinavian.com
Category Command Line
Uploaded by ShaeErisson at 2024-04-29T20:43:20Z
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Executables sandwatch
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Readme for sandwatch-0.1.1.0

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sandwatch

Remember how long commands take, tell me if I have enough time to make a sandwich?

This is inspired by arbtt, the shell built-in time, and the rust utility tally.

The name was suggested by qu1j0t3.

Why?

Rather than telling me how long something has taken, I would like to know roughly how long this task will take, based on historical records.

Sandwatch records the current directory, the command line, and the runtime for a command.

When running a new command that matches the directory and the first two words of the command line, sandwatch reports expected completion time in sandwich units (five minutes?).

How to use it?

It's a wrapper command. sandwatch cabal build or sandwatch make or whatever you like. Perhaps one day this will become a shell builtin written in Rust.

How to install it?

I suggest using ghcup to install the Haskell compiler and then cabal build in your clone of this git repo.

How does it work?

Sandwatch creates a json file holding entries recording the working directory, the command line, and the execution time.

When a command matches in the same directory, execution from previous runs is average together to give you a rough idea as to whether you have time to make a sandwich or not!

Tell me the root problem?

I don't have insight into the progress of a running program. I wish all programs would dump some number of percent complete events. I could use that to estimate completion time from start time.

Ideas

  • Is there a good way to turn command line arguments into a set? For example, ls -o -a is the same as ls -a -o but the strings are different. How could they be the same?
  • Is there some good way to automatically figure out how much of a command line to compare for equality?
  • How could I compare command lines for equality across directories? While make does different things in different directories, apt install is always the same. How do you decide?