Ask HN: Is there a list of handy terminal programs that have Docker containers?

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6 years ago

I recently found a little script called [1] "enhance" that uses AI to enhance an input image.

Anyway it conveniently runs as a docker script and you can set use it via a bash alias.

    alias enhance='function ne() { docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)/`dirname ${@:$#}`":/ne/input -it alexjc/neural-enhance ${@:1:$#-1} "input/`basename ${@:$#}`"; }; ne'

Sp when I run "$ enhance 'my_image.png' " in my terminal, it downloads the image (if they're not there) and executes the program seamlessly.

I thought this was pretty cool as the only dependency your system needs is Docker and all your aliases will resolve when/if they're used. Of course this is not super efficient and may only be useful for certain situations but I think it's a nice way to work.

So I'm looking for a list of useful CLI apps that run with docker images, so I can build a list of aliases. Anyone know of any?

[1]https://github.com/alexjc/neural-enhance