Description

Small utilities to:

• quote and join words or lines in files

• split and unquote words in files

Installation

The destination directory will contain 3 sub-directories: bin, share and man.

Using git repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/jfgiraud/quote-and-join.git
$ cd quote-and-join
$ sudo make install DESTDIR=/usr/local

Using latest tarball release.

$ curl -s -L https://api.github.com/repos/jfgiraud/quote-and-join/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | cut -d':' -f2- | tr -d ' ",' | xargs wget -O quote-and-join.tgz
$ sudo tar zxvf quote-and-join.tgz -C /usr/local

Usages

Use man.

$ man qaj
$ man uqaj

Use option.

$ qaj -h
$ uqaj -h

Examples qaj

Quote words with ' and join with ,.

$ echo lorem ipsum dolores est | qaj -w -q -j,
'lorem','ipsum','dolores','est'

Quote words with " and join with ,  (comma + space).

$ echo lorem ipsum dolores est | qaj -w -qq -j', '
"lorem", "ipsum", "dolores", "est"

Prefix words with <, suffix words with > and join with #.

$ echo lorem ipsum dolores est | qaj -w -a'<' -b'>' -j#
<lorem>#<ipsum>#<dolores>#<est>

Extract words.

$ echo lorem ipsum dolores est | qaj -w
lorem
ipsum
dolores
est

Prefix words with <, suffix words with the associated parenthese > and join with #.

$ echo lorem ipsum dolores est | qaj -w -p'<' -j#
<lorem>#<ipsum>#<dolores>#<est>

Quote lines with " and join with ,. Lines are trimmed..

$ printf "lorem\nipsum\n dolores\n\nest" | qaj -qq -j,
"lorem","ipsum","dolores","est"

Quote lines with " and join with ,. Lines are not trimmed..

$ printf "lorem\nipsum\n dolores\n\nest" | qaj -qq -J -t
"lorem", "ipsum", " dolores", "est"

Quote lines with " and join with ,. Lines are trimmed. Add a prefix and suffix on the final result..

$ printf "lorem\nipsum\n dolores\n\nest" | qaj -qq -j, -A 'Final result: ' -B '.'
Final result: "lorem","ipsum","dolores","est".

Examples uqaj

Remove prefix before, remove suffix after, split using ,, unquote using {}.

$ s="before{first item},{second  item},{third item}after"
$ echo $s | uqaj -j, -p'{' -A before -B after
first item
second item
third item

Remove prefix <, remove suffix >, split using ,, unquote using ".

$ s='<"lorem", "ipsum", "dolores", "est">'
$ echo $s | uqaj -J -A '<' -B '>' -qq
lorem
ipsum
dolores
est

Remove prefix <, remove suffix >, split using ,, unquote using ".

$ s=$'<"lorem",\n"ipsum", "dolores",\n"est">'
$ echo $s | uqaj -J -A '<' -B '>' -qq
lorem
ipsum
dolores
est