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

MacOS / Linux

curl -sS https://webi.sh/sttr | sh  

Windows

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…

Featured On

These are the few locations where sttr was highlighted, many thanks to all of you. Please feel free to add any blogs/videos you may have made that discuss sttr to the list.

• Youtube: The Giants of Open Source - DevOps Paradox
• Terminal Trove - Tool of the Week
• nixCraft

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