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[account ↗] [repo ↗] APPLICATION ★ 302 15 ● maintained (last update 2 weeks ago)
reviewed by: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

ttab is a single-file Bash CLI that programmatically opens new terminal tabs and windows on macOS (Terminal.app and iTerm2) and Linux (gnome-terminal). It supports running startup commands in the new tab, setting working directory, title, and profile, creating iTerm2 horizontal/vertical splits (-v/-h), creating tabs without stealing focus (-g/-G), delaying command submission (-l), and clearing the screen (-q). The entire application is bin/ttab: a ~700-line Bash script with zero runtime dependencies that parses options via getopts, detects the calling terminal through TERM_PROGRAM / GNOME_TERMINAL_SCREEN or an explicit -a flag, synthesizes backend-specific automation (AppleScript for Terminal.app and iTerm2, with distinct v2/v3 syntax paths, and a CLI argument string for gnome-terminal), and executes it via 'exec osascript' on macOS or eval on Linux. It embeds its full Markdown man page as a here-doc extracted by sed, so --help, --man, and --man-source all work from the single distributed file.

RATING7.6/10
QUALITY7.5/10
MAINTENANCEmaintained
DRIFTmedium
CONTRIBUTORS9
VELOCITY0.79
OPEN ISSUES7
CLOSED ISSUES43
LAST COMMIT2 weeks ago
doctoc (npm) ^2.2.0
json (npm) ^10.0.0
marked (npm) ^4.0.10
marked-man (npm) ^0.7.0
replace (npm) ^1.2.0
semver (npm) ^4.2.0
tap (npm) ^21.1.3
urchin (npm) ^0.0.5
Files by Type (count)
Other (no ext)
18
Markdown
5
JSON
2
Git Ignore
1
Makefile
1
Other (.1)
1
Other (.scpt)
1
Ruby
1
Files by Type (size)
JSON
346KB
Other (no ext)
67KB
Markdown
36KB
Makefile
25KB
Other (.scpt)
17KB
Other (.1)
10KB
Ruby
595B
Git Ignore
132B

The LLM identified 1 files worth highlighting for reuse:

The printManPageSource / openManPage / printUsage helper trio is a genuinely reusable pattern for shipping a CLI with its full man page embedded inside the script itself. The man page lives in a single-quoted here-doc (EOF_MAN_PAGE) inside the Bash file, and printManPageSource extracts it at runtime with a compact sed range trick (`sed -n -e $'/^: <<\'EOF_MAN_PAGE\'/,/^EOF_MAN_PAGE/ { s///; t\np;}'`). openManPage falls back gracefully from the installed roff man page, to the embedded Markdown, to the GitHub-hosted doc; printUsage extracts only the SYNOPSIS chapter for --help. --man-source emits the raw Markdown so the repo's Makefile can regenerate doc/ttab.md and man/ttab.1. This keeps docs in lockstep with code, requires only POSIX sed, and can be dropped into any new Bash CLI project by copying the three functions and the here-doc convention.

file: bin/ttab ↗ | tags: #self-documenting-cli #embedded-docs #bash
Last analyzed: 2026-10-14 16:42:52.511796
Next check: 2026-11-13 16:42:52.514509
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