nbcommands bring the goodness of Unix commands to Jupyter notebooks.

You can simply use pip to install nbcommands:

$ pip install nbcommands

nbcommands gives you the following commands to interact with your Jupyter notebooks without spinning up a notebook server.

• nbtouch: Update the access and modification times of each Jupyter notebook to the current time.

    $ nbtouch notebook1.ipynb notebook2.ipynb

  

• nbgrep: Search for a pattern in Jupyter notebooks.

    $ nbgrep "os" notebook1.ipynb notebook2.ipynb

  

• nbhead: Print the first 5 cells of a Jupyter notebook to standard output.

    $ nbhead notebook1.ipynb

  

  Note: You can also specify the number of cells you want to print using the -n option.

    $ nbhead -n 10 notebook1.ipynb

• nbtail: Print the last 5 cells of a Jupyter notebook to standard output.

    $ nbtail notebook2.ipynb

  

  Note: You can also specify the number of cells you want to print using the -n option.

    $ nbtail -n 10 notebook2.ipynb

• nbcat: Concatenate Jupyter notebooks to standard output.

    $ nbcat notebook1.ipynb notebook2.ipynb

  

  Note: You can create a new notebook by concatenating multiple notebooks using the -o option.

    $ nbcat notebook1.ipynb notebook2.ipynb -o notebook3.ipynb

And some non-Unix goodness,

• nbblack: Blacken Jupyter notebooks.

    $ nbblack notebook1.ipynb notebook2.ipynb

  

Future enhancements:

• nbstrip: Strip outputs from Jupyter notebooks.
• nbecho: Add a code cell to a Jupyter notebook.
• nbdiff: Find the diff between two Jupyter notebooks.
• nbtime: Run and time a Jupyter notebook.
• nbwc: Print word count for a Jupyter notebook.

nbcommands uses Semantic Versioning. For the available versions, see the tags on this repository.

This project is licensed under the Apache License, see the LICENSE file for details.