Bidbar – save bash commands in the menu bar and run them with shortcuts

What it does

Save Terminal commands in the Mac menu bar. Run and copy them with keyboard shortcuts. With Bidbar, all your commands are at your finger tips, just a click of a button or a tap of a key away. Jot down simple one-liners you keep forgetting or save complex scripts that serve a purpose. open -a Terminal ~/path/to/folder open -a Xcode open https://getbidbar.com say Today's date is `date +%A%B%d` { echo Goals for today; cat goals.txt; } | say After running a command, see the results in a detailed notification and view the output in a clean, minimalfrom getbidbar.com

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