prettylist

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prettylist

a tiny unix pipe utitlity that reads in newline delimited items and organizes those items in lines that do not exceed a configurable amount of characters

installation

requires Golang

$ go install -v code.nkcmr.net/prettylist@latest

usage

i deal a lot with CSV files so if I am trying to prepare a large list of things to search for in SQL it usually looks like this:

$ cat data.csv | \
	q 'select id_column from - where thing = "foo"' | \
	xsv sample 10 | \
	tail -n+2 | \
	prettylist --singlequote --maxlen 120 --nspaces 4

(q is https://github.com/harelba/q, xsv is https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv)

and the output from prettylist should look like this:

    '493f8050dd7849d581d243e744297bff', '8ac65ae3a7774633afcb47d7a8a14636',
    '9d2e61a1cca74ffcb118a2d6ad36df0f', '68054d0e4c0245a3bb171829a3a63a37',
    '20094123d6094d66bf29a24cc134285d', '10724a73a1d8461caddb84729bb5bc2b',
    '0e30c31ace4847038daa8a33333b32aa', '2e7e94795f2c4e4a8fdfd9e1baf4bd3e',
    'b196843ea1f04f3993841e7e1da37aee', '8220daacac4e4347b9463ec452a4e2ab'

ready to be pasted into an IN (...) for a query!

license

Copyright 2020-2022 Nicholas Comer

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