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# Menu Helper
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# Menu-Helper
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A program to manage a database of recipes and help you to pick out meals based
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on filters of ingredients and tags.
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## Usage
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Ensure the `XDG_DATA_HOME` variable is set (e.g. to `$HOME/.local/share`).
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Ensure the `XDG_DATA_HOME` variable is set (e.g. to `$HOME/.local/share`) and
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that you have installed the SQLite3 library.
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Upon first execution of any command, the program will automatically create the
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database.
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### Adding New Recipes
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The first thing you're probably going to want to do is to add a new recipe to
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your database. If this database hasn't been created already then the program
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will do it automatically. This is done via the `add` subcommand, which will
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query you about the different attributes you want for your recipe, looking
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something like the following:
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```console
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$ menu-helper add
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Name: Linguine Scampi
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Description: A lemony Italian pasta dish.
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Ingredients (comma separated): linguine,shrimp,garlic,parsley,lemon
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Tags (comma separated): italian,lunch
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Creating database in /home/nicolas/.local/share/menu-helper/recipes.db
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```
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This will have created your recipe within the database. That last line there is
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merely informative, telling you that the database did not exist and it is not
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being created; if you had a database already and it isn't being found, ensure
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that your `XDG_DATA_HOME` environment variable is properly set.
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### Querying Recipes
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#### Filtering
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Once a recipe or two have been added to your database you may now query them
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filtering based on ingredients and tags. This is done via the `list` command,
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which takes two kinds of arguments, both optional:
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- `-i <list>`: Comma-separated list of the ingredients to look for.
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- `-t <list>`: Comma-separated list of the tags to look for.
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If neither is specified then all recipes will be listed with their respective
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ID, name, and description:
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```console
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$ menu-helper list
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1 | Linguine Scampi | A lemony Italian pasta dish.
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2 | Garlic Soup | A simple monastic soup for cold winters.
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```
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However, when one of these arguments is used it filters recipes to only show
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those which include __all__ the ingredients and tags specified:
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```console
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$ menu-helper list -i linguine
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1 | Linguine Scampi | A lemony Italian pasta dish.
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```
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#### Recipe Information
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The IDs shown in the queries above now become useful for the rest of
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Menu-Helper functionality. If you wish to query all stored information about a
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given recipe, this is where you can use the `info` subcommand with the relevant
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ID:
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```console
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$ menu-helper info 2
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Name: Garlic Soup
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Description: A simple monastic soup for cold winters.
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ID: 2
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Ingredients:
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- garlic
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- bread
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- egg
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Tags:
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- soup
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- dinner
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- simple
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```
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### Removing Recipes
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If you end up desiring to remove a recipe for whatever reason, you can do so by
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using the `del` subcommand with the recipe's corresponding ID:
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```console
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$ menu-helper del 2
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$ menu-helper list
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1 | Linguine Scampi | A lemony Italian pasta dish.
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```
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### Modifying Recipe Ingredients/Tags
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If there are ingredients/tags which you forgot to add to a recipe, or that you
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added erringly, you can correct this with the following commands:
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- `add-ingr <id> <list>`: Add list of comma-separated ingredients `list` to
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recipe with ID `id`.
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- `rm-ingr <id> <list>`: Remove list of comma-separated ingredients `list` from
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recipe with ID `id`.
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- `add-tag <id> <list>`: Add list of comma-separated tags `list` to recipe with
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ID `id`.
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- `rm-tag <id> <list>`: Remove list of comma-separated tags `list` from recipe
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with ID `id`.
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For example, we forgot to add the useful tag to our first recipe (Linguine
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Scampi) that it is a pasta dish. We can do this with the following command:
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```console
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$ menu-helper add-tag 1 pasta
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$ menu-helper info 1
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Name: Linguine Scampi
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Description: A lemony Italian pasta dish.
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ID: 1
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Ingredients:
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- linguine
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- shrimp
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- garlic
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- parsley
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- lemon
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Tags:
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- italian
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- lunch
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- pasta
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```
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## Building
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@ -15,7 +143,9 @@ To build the program you will require the following dependencies:
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- SQLite3 C/C++ library
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- Make
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Once installed, compile the project with the `make` command.
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Once installed, compile the project with the `make` command. To install simply
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run the `make install` command, optionally appending `PREFIX=...` to change the
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default directory of installation (i.e. `/usr/local/...`).
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## Contributing
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