A friendly wrapper for launchctl. Start your agents and go to lunch!

Don't you hate OSX's launchctl? You have to give it exact filenames. The syntax is annoying different from Linux's nice, simple init system and overly verbose. It's just not a very developer-friendly tool.

Lunchy aims to be that friendly tool by wrapping launchctl and providing a few simple operations that you perform all the time:

• ls [pattern]
• start [pattern]
• stop [pattern]
• restart [pattern]
• status [pattern]
• install [file]
• show [pattern]
• edit [pattern]

where pattern is just a substring that matches the agent's plist filename. If you don't use a unique pattern, Lunchy will warn you of this and give you a list of the matching items instead.

So instead of:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/io.redis.redis-server.plist

you can do this:

lunchy start redis

and:

> lunchy ls
com.danga.memcached
com.google.keystone.agent
com.mysql.mysqld
io.redis.redis-server
org.mongodb.mongod

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Lunchy is written in Go because I was studying that language.

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Carlos Brando, @carlosbrando, nomedojogo.com