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Supporting your devops by shortening your strings using common abbreviations and clever guesswork

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abbreviate

Shorten your strings using common abbreviations.

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Motivation

This tool comes out of a frustration of the name of resources (in my specific case, AWS stack names) being too long. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have a tool that would be able to suggest shorter alternatives if your original name is too long.

Before we get any further, I'm really interested in how you feel about this tool. Please take the time to fill in this short survey: https://forms.gle/6xV1gB8yKGdmuHJ78

Installation

go get github.com/dnnrly/abbreviate
make build

Usage

This tool will attempt to shorten the string provided using common abbreviations
specified by language and 'set'. Word boundaries will be detected using title case
and non-letters.

Hosted on Github - https://github.com/dnnrly/abbreviate

I'm really interested in how you feel about this tool. Please take the time to fill in this short survey: https://forms.gle/6xV1gB8yKGdmuHJ78

If you spot a bug, feel free to raise an issue or fix it and make a pull request. We're really interested to see more abbreviations added or corrected.

Usage: abbreviate [action] [flags] abbreviate [command]

Available Commands: camel Abbreviate a string and convert it to camel case help Help about any command kebab Abbreviate a string and convert it to kebab case original Abbreviate the string using the original word boundary separators pascal Abbreviate a string and convert it to pascal case print Print abbreviations in this set separated Abbreviate a string and convert it using separator passed snake Abbreviate a string and convert it to snake case

Flags: -c, --custom string Custom abbreviation set --from-front Shorten from the front -h, --help help for abbreviate -l, --language string Language to select (default "en-us") --list List all abbreviate sets by language -m, --max int Maximum length of string, keep on abbreviating while the string is longer than this limit -n, --newline Add newline to the end of the string (default true) -s, --set string Abbreviation set (default "common") --no-stopwords Remove stopwords from abbreviation --strategy string Abbreviation strategy (default "lookup")

Use "abbreviate [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Examples:

$ abbreviate original strategy-limited stg-ltd

$ abbreviate original prestrategy-limitedment prstg-ltdmnt

$ abbreviate original --max 11 strategy-limited strategy-ltd

$ abbreviate original --max 11 --from-front strategy-limited stg-limited

$ abbreviate camel --max 99 strategy-limited strategyLimited

$ abbreviate kebab StrategyLimited stg-ltd

$ abbreviate separated StrategyLimited --separator + stg+ltd

$ abbreviate separated StrategyLimited stgltd

Code of Conduct

This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. See the contributing guide for more details.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

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