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