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texttable 1.6.2 module for creating simple ASCII tables

Documentation

Read the documentation

Installation

Easy Way

Run curl -LSs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dtomlinson91/emoji-cmd/master/install.sh | bash

Python

From pip

coming soon

From local wheel

Create a local directory mkdir python-applications
Create a virtualenv python3 -m venv emoji
Activate the environment source emoji/bin/activate
Download latest .whl version from releases and install pip install emoji_cmd-1.0-py3-none-any.whl
Link binary to PATH ln -s $(which emoji) ~/.local/bin
Deactivate virtualenv deactivate

From source

Follow steps 1-3 above
Download requirements.txt
Download the latest tar.gz from releases and extract.
Do pip install -r requirements.txt
Go into the extracted tar folder and do pip install -e .
Link binary to PATH ln -s $(which emoji) ~/.local/bin
Deactivate virtualenv deactivate

Example Usage

emoji --help

Usage: emoji [OPTIONS]

  Emojis on the command line 🥳!

  Search for an emoji with --search EMOJI

Options:
  --help             Show this message and exit.
  --version          Show the version and exit.
  -s, --search TEXT  Prints all emojis matching TEXT

emoji --search cake

I found 5 emojis for cake! 🥳
+-------------+-------+
|  tag/alias  | emoji |
+=============+=======+
| :pancakes:  | 🥞    |
+-------------+-------+
| :fish_cake: | 🍥    |
+-------------+-------+
| :moon_cake: | 🥮    |
+-------------+-------+
| :cake:      | 🍰    |
+-------------+-------+
| :cupcake:   | 🧁    |
+-------------+-------+