vmensa

vmensa brings the mensa menus of the TU Dresden, as well as the University of Hamburg to your command line.

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For a quick overview of all command line options, see vmensa --help. For more information, please consult the man page.

Building

A nix flake is provided, though building should also work with just cabal build or cabal install.

There is also a small build script available, which takes case of installing the man page as well; use at your own risk. It expects the path where it should move the executable to as an input. For example,

 $ ./build ~/.local/bin/vmensa

will symlink the executable to ~/.local/bin/vmensa.

Examples

What follows are some examples, in increasing complexity, to help you get a feel for what's possible.

$ vmensa
$ vmensa --mensen siedepunkt --wrap 62 --time lunch
$ vmensa --diet vegan --no-additives --sections name,notes --ikat Suppe
$ vmensa --no-additives --columns 4 --wrap 50 --sections name,price,notes \
> --ikat Suppe,Pasta,Terrine --mensen wu,siede,zelt,alte,bio

The output of the last command will be something along the lines of

2022年08月01日-151408_1499x662_scrot

For some more examples, refer to the man page.