Acmesh

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version: "2.0.0"

name: Acmesh

description: "A pure Unix shell script ACME client for SSL / TLS certificate automation acmesh, shell, acme, acme-challenge, acme-protocol, acme-v2."

author: BytesAgain

homepage: https://bytesagain.com

source: https://github.com/bytesagain/ai-skills

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# Acmesh

A multi-purpose utility tool for managing data entries, searching records, and exporting information from the command line. Acmesh provides a lightweight, file-based data management system with timestamped logging and full CRUD operations.

Commands

| Command | Description |

|---------|-------------|

| `run` | Execute the main function with provided arguments |

| `config` | Display configuration file path and log the action |

| `status` | Show current operational status (reports "ready" when healthy) |

| `init` | Initialize the data directory and prepare the environment |

| `list` | List all entries stored in the data log file |

| `add` | Add a new timestamped entry to the data log |

| `remove` | Remove a specified entry from the data store |

| `search` | Search entries by keyword (case-insensitive grep) |

| `export` | Export all stored data to stdout |

| `info` | Display version number and data directory path |

| `help` | Show the full help message with all available commands |

| `version` | Print the current version string |

Data Storage

All data is stored in plain text files under the data directory:

Default data directory: `~/.local/share/acmesh/`

Override by setting the `ACMESH_DIR` environment variable:

export ACMESH_DIR="/custom/path/to/acmesh"

Requirements

When to Use

1. **Quick data logging** — When you need a fast CLI-based way to log timestamped entries without setting up a database

2. **Searching through records** — When you need to find specific entries across your data log using keyword search

3. **Exporting data for reports** — When you need to dump all stored records to stdout or pipe them into another tool

4. **Lightweight task tracking** — When you want a minimal, file-based system to track items, notes, or events

5. **System initialization checks** — When you need to verify the tool is properly initialized and check its operational status

Examples

# Initialize acmesh and verify status
acmesh init
acmesh status

# Add several entries to the data log
acmesh add "Deploy new SSL certificate for example.com"
acmesh add "Renew wildcard cert for *.staging.example.com"
acmesh add "Revoke expired certificate for old.example.com"

# List all stored entries
acmesh list

# Search for entries containing "wildcard"
acmesh search wildcard

# Export all data (pipe to a file)
acmesh export > backup.txt

# Check version and data directory info
acmesh info
acmesh version

Output

All commands return output to stdout. You can redirect to a file:

acmesh export > output.txt
acmesh list > entries.txt

Every command execution is logged to `$DATA_DIR/history.log` for auditing purposes.

Configuration

Set the `ACMESH_DIR` environment variable to change the data directory. Default: `~/.local/share/acmesh/`

# Example: use a custom directory
export ACMESH_DIR="$HOME/.acmesh-data"
acmesh init

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