mf - Command Feedback Tool

mf is a spicy little wrapper for your shell commands that provides audible feedback with attitude. It will vocally tell you whether your command succeeded or failed, with a variety of colorful phrases.

✨ Features

• Runs any shell command and reports success/failure with text-to-speech
• Use it as a prefix to commands, or after a command to check its status
• Cross-platform: works on macOS, Linux, and Windows
• Collection of randomized R-rated messages to bring some fun to your terminal
• Simple interface - just prefix any command with mf

📦 Installation

Using Homebrew

brew tap arvindell/tap
brew install mf-speak

Using npm

npm install -g mf-speak

Using Cargo

cargo install mf-speak

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/arvindell/mf.git
cd mf

# Build in release mode
cargo build --release

# Move the binary to a location in your PATH (Linux/macOS)
cp target/release/mf ~/.local/bin/   # or sudo cp target/release/mf /usr/local/bin/

# Or on Windows, copy the binary to a location in your PATH
# copy target\release\mf.exe %USERPROFILE%\bin\

🎮 Usage

You can use mf in two ways:

1. As a command prefix (run command and get feedback):

   mf [COMMAND]
   

2. After a command (get feedback about the previous command):

   [COMMAND]; mf
   

   This is useful when you want to know when a long-running task completes.

Examples

# Run a successful command with mf prefix
mf ls -la
# Speaks: "Hell yeah, it fucking worked!" (or other random success message)

# Run a failing command with mf prefix
mf some-nonexistent-command
# Speaks: "What the hell did you do wrong?" (or other random failure message)

# Multi-word commands work too
mf "find . -name '*.rs' | wc -l"

# Run a command and get feedback after completion
ls -la; mf
# Speaks success or failure based on ls command's exit status

# Great for long-running commands
make build; mf

🔊 Text-to-Speech Support

mf uses different text-to-speech mechanisms depending on your platform:

• macOS: Uses the built-in say command
• Linux: Uses espeak or espeak-ng (needs to be installed)
• Windows: Uses PowerShell's System.Speech synthesis

If no text-to-speech capability is available, messages will still be printed to the console.

🚀 Why Use mf?

This tool is perfect for:

• Getting immediate audible feedback when long-running commands finish
• Adding some humor to your terminal workflow
• Knowing when a background task completes without having to check visually
• Making everyone in the coffee shop look at you when your build fails

📝 Requirements

• For Linux users: Install espeak (sudo apt-get install espeak on Debian/Ubuntu)
• Windows and macOS should work out of the box

🔧 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to add more colorful messages or extend functionality.

📜 License

MIT