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                             ⚡ zap characters from text with ease

About

Zap is a command line utility which combines the basic functionalities of two well known command line utilities, cut and tr. Zap doesn't have all the functionalities of cut or tr because it isn't meant to replace them. Zap was created to make slicing strings in the terminal a little bit easier. Zap removes all escape characters and truncates all spaces by default reducing the number of zaps, cuts, and translations in the process.

Similarities To cut

• slice strings based on a given delimiter
• select a one or more fields (range in zap)

Similarities To tr

• character truncation (default in zap)
• ANSII escape character deletion (not including hex and octal)
• character replacement (injection in zap)

Why use Zap?

Some of the benefits of using Zap is that it can help reduce the number of times cut and tr may need to be executed. Example: "some text" | zap -d:":" -l | grep -E 'something'. The previous example removes all ASCII escape sequences as well as the ':' character, gets the last field, and sends the output to grep. In many cases you may find yourself using zap inplace of cut.

Usage Information

• zap -d:TEXT [-i:TEXT | -g:POS | -r:START,STOP] [-f | -l] TEXT
• TEXT | zap -d:TEXT [-i:TEXT | -g:POS | -r:START,STOP] [-f | -l]

Usage Examples

$ example="This is some\nexample text\tfor testing the zap utility\0"
$ zap -d:'example' -i:'actual'
This is some actual text for testing the zap utility
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