sttr is command line software that allows you to quickly run various transformation operations on the string.
// With input prompt
sttr
// Direct input
sttr md5 “Hello World”
// File input
sttr md5 file.text
sttr base64-encode image.jpg
// Reading from different processor like cat, curl, printf etc..
echo “Hello World” | sttr md5
cat file.txt | sttr md5
// Writing output to a file
sttr yaml-json file.yaml > file-output.json
:movie_camera: Demo
:battery: Installation
Quick install
You can run the below curl to install it somewhere in your PATH for easy use. Ideally it will be installed at ./bin folder
curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abhimanyu003/sttr/main/install.sh | sh
Webi
curl -sS https://webi.sh/sttr | sh
curl.exe https://webi.ms/sttr | powershell
See here
Homebrew
If you are on macOS and using Homebrew, you can install sttr with the following:
brew tap abhimanyu003/sttr
brew install sttr
Snap
sudo snap install sttr
Arch Linux
yay -S sttr-bin
Scoop
scoop bucket add sttr https://github.com/abhimanyu003/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install sttr
Go
go install github.com/abhimanyu003/sttr@latest
Manually
Download the pre-compiled binaries from the Release! page and copy them to the desired location.
:books: Guide
After installation simply run sttr command. // For interactive menu
sttr
// Provide your input
// Press two enter to open operation menu
// Press `/` to filter various operations.
// Can also press UP-Down arrows select various operations.
Working with help. sttr -h
// Example
sttr zeropad -h
sttr md5 -h
Working with files input. sttr {command-name} {filename}
sttr base64-encode image.jpg
sttr md5 file.txt
sttr md-html Readme.md
Writing output to file. sttr yaml-json file.yaml > file-output.json
Taking input from other command. curl https: //jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users | sttr json-yaml
Chaining the different processor. sttr md5 hello | sttr base64-encode
echo “Hello World” | sttr base64-encode | sttr md5
:boom: Supported Operations
Encode/Decode
[x] ascii85-encode – Encode your text to ascii85 [x] ascii85-decode – Decode your ascii85 text [x] base32-decode – Decode your base32 text [x] base32-encode – Encode your text to base32 [x] base64-decode – Decode your base64 text [x] base64-encode – Encode your text to base64 [x] base85-encode – Encode your text to base85 [x] base85-decode – Decode your base85 text [x] base64url-decode – Decode your base64 url [x] base64url-encode – Encode your text to url [x] html-decode – Unescape your HTML [x] html-encode – Escape your HTML [x] rot13-encode – Encode your text to ROT13 [x] url-decode – Decode URL entities [x] url-encode – Encode URL entities
Hash
[x] bcrypt – Get the Bcrypt hash of your text [x] md5 – Get the MD5 checksum of your text [x] sha1 – Get the SHA1 checksum of your text [x] sha256 – Get the SHA256 checksum of your text [x] sha512 – Get the SHA512 checksum of your text
String
[x] camel – Transform your text to CamelCase [x] kebab – Transform your text to kebab-case [x] lower – Transform your text to lower case [x] reverse – Reverse Text ( txeT esreveR ) [x] slug – Transform your text to slug-case [x] snake – Transform your text to snake_case [x] title – Transform your text to Title Case [x] upper – Transform your text to UPPER CASE
Lines
[x] count-lines – Count the number of lines in your text [x] reverse-lines – Reverse lines [x] shuffle-lines – Shuffle lines randomly [x] sort-lines – Sort lines alphabetically [x] unique-lines – Get unique lines from list
Spaces
[x] remove-spaces – Remove all spaces + new lines [x] remove-newlines – Remove all new lines
Count
[x] count-chars – Find the length of your text (including spaces) [x] count-lines – Count the number of lines in your text [x] count-words – Count the number of words in your text
RGB/Hex
[x] hex-rgb – Convert a #hex-color code to RGB [x] hex-encode – Encode your text Hex [x] hex-decode – Convert Hexadecimal to String
JSON
[x] json – Format your text as JSON [x] json-escape – JSON Escape [x] json-unescape – JSON Unescape [x] json-yaml – Convert JSON to YAML text [x] json-msgpack – Convert JSON to MSGPACK [x] msgpack-json – Convert MSGPACK to JSON
YAML
[x] yaml-json – Convert YAML to JSON text
Markdown
[x] markdown-html – Convert Markdown to HTML
Extract
[x] extract-emails – Extract emails from given text [x] extract-ip – Extract IPv4 and IPv6 from your text [x] extract-urls – Extract URls your text ( we don’t do ping check )
Other
[x] escape-quotes – escape single and double quotes from your text [x] completion – generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell [x] interactive – Use sttr in interactive mode [x] version – Print the version of sttr [x] zeropad – Pad a number with zeros [x] and adding more….
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