Cross-Platform, Cli App To Perform Various Operations On String

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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

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.

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.

sttr -h// Example
sttr zeropad -h
sttr md5 -h

Working with files input.

sttr command-name filenamesttr base64-encode image.jpg
sttr md5 file.txt
sttr md-html Readme.md

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-encodeecho "Hello World" | sttr base64-encode | sttr md5

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….

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.