This is a Nushell plugin called "strutils".
str compress- Compress a string using brotli, flate, or zlibstr decompress- Decompress a string using brotli, flate, or zlibstr dedent- Remove common leading whitespace from textstr deunicode- Replace unicode characters with ASCII counterpartsstr indent- Add leading spaces to each line of textstr similarity- Calculate edit distance between strings using various algorithmsstr wrap- Wrap text to a specified width
> cargo install --path .This plugin implements a some string utilities that are not included in nushell.
str deunicode replaces unicode accented characters with their ASCII counterparts based on the deunicode crate.
> plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_strutils
> plugin use strutils
> 'A…C' | str deunicode
A...Cstr similarity is an older plugin that I thought fit here since this is a common plugin for string utilities.
This plugin uses the textdistance.rs crate to calculate edit distance
❯ "nushell" | str similarity "nutshell" --algorithm levenshtein
1❯ "nushell" | str similarity "nutshell" -all╭────┬────────────────────────────┬──────────╮
│ # │ algorithm │ distance │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ bag │ 1 │
│ 1 │ cosine │ 0.94 │
│ 2 │ damerau_levenshtein │ 1 │
│ 3 │ entropy_ncd │ 0.05 │
│ 4 │ hamming │ 5 │
│ 5 │ jaccard │ 0.88 │
│ 6 │ jaro │ 0.96 │
│ 7 │ jaro_winkler │ 0.97 │
│ 8 │ levenshtein │ 1 │
│ 9 │ longest_common_subsequence │ 7 │
│ 10 │ longest_common_substring │ 5 │
│ 11 │ length │ 1 │
│ 12 │ lig3 │ 0.86 │
│ 13 │ mlipns │ 0 │
│ 14 │ overlap │ 1 │
│ 15 │ prefix │ 2 │
│ 16 │ ratcliff_obershelp │ 0.93 │
│ 17 │ roberts │ 0.93 │
│ 18 │ sift4_common │ 1 │
│ 19 │ sift4_simple │ 1 │
│ 20 │ smith_waterman │ 6 │
│ 21 │ sorensen_dice │ 0.93 │
│ 22 │ suffix │ 5 │
│ 23 │ tversky │ 0.88 │
│ 24 │ yujian_bo │ 0.12 │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ # │ algorithm │ distance │
╰────┴────────────────────────────┴──────────╯
The output is normalized between 0 and 1
❯ "nushell" | str similarity "nutshell" --all --normalize╭────┬────────────────────────────┬──────────╮
│ # │ algorithm │ distance │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ bag │ 0.12 │
│ 1 │ cosine │ 0.94 │
│ 2 │ damerau_levenshtein │ 0.12 │
│ 3 │ entropy_ncd │ 0.05 │
│ 4 │ hamming │ 0.62 │
│ 5 │ jaccard │ 0.88 │
│ 6 │ jaro │ 0.96 │
│ 7 │ jaro_winkler │ 0.97 │
│ 8 │ levenshtein │ 0.12 │
│ 9 │ longest_common_subsequence │ 0.88 │
│ 10 │ longest_common_substring │ 0.62 │
│ 11 │ length │ 0.12 │
│ 12 │ lig3 │ 0.86 │
│ 13 │ mlipns │ 0 │
│ 14 │ overlap │ 1 │
│ 15 │ prefix │ 0.25 │
│ 16 │ ratcliff_obershelp │ 0.93 │
│ 17 │ roberts │ 0.93 │
│ 18 │ sift4_common │ 0.12 │
│ 19 │ sift4_simple │ 0.12 │
│ 20 │ smith_waterman │ 0.75 │
│ 21 │ sorensen_dice │ 0.93 │
│ 22 │ suffix │ 0.62 │
│ 23 │ tversky │ 0.88 │
│ 24 │ yujian_bo │ 0.12 │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ # │ algorithm │ distance │
╰────┴────────────────────────────┴──────────╯
❯ "nushell" | str similarity "nutshell" --list
╭────┬────────────────────────────┬──────────╮
│ # │ algorithm │ alias │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ bag │ bag │
│ 1 │ cosine │ cos │
│ 2 │ damerau_levenshtein │ dlev │
│ 3 │ entropy_ncd │ entncd │
│ 4 │ hamming │ ham │
│ 5 │ jaccard │ jac │
│ 6 │ jaro │ jar │
│ 7 │ jaro_winkler │ jarw │
│ 8 │ levenshtein │ lev │
│ 9 │ longest_common_subsequence │ lcsubseq │
│ 10 │ longest_common_substring │ lcsubstr │
│ 11 │ length │ len │
│ 12 │ lig3 │ lig │
│ 13 │ mlipns │ mli │
│ 14 │ overlap │ olap │
│ 15 │ prefix │ pre │
│ 16 │ ratcliff_obershelp │ rat │
│ 17 │ roberts │ rob │
│ 18 │ sift4_common │ scom │
│ 19 │ sift4_simple │ ssim │
│ 20 │ smith_waterman │ smithw │
│ 21 │ sorensen_dice │ soredice │
│ 22 │ suffix │ suf │
│ 23 │ tversky │ tv │
│ 24 │ yujian_bo │ ybo │
├────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ # │ algorithm │ alias │
╰────┴────────────────────────────┴──────────╯str compress will convert nushell values to a string and then compress that string using the specified method with the parameters provided.
❯ "ABCDEFG" | str compress --brotli
Length: 11 (0xb) bytes | printable whitespace ascii_other non_ascii
00000000: 07 03 80 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 03 ••×ABCDEFG•❯ "ABCDEFG" | str compress --flate
Length: 13 (0xd) bytes | printable whitespace ascii_other non_ascii
00000000: 73 74 72 76 71 75 73 07 00 strvqus•0❯ "ABCDEFG" | str compress --zlib
Length: 15 (0xf) bytes | printable whitespace ascii_other non_ascii
00000000: 78 5e 73 74 72 76 71 75 73 07 00 07 5b 01 dd x^strvqus•0•[•×str decompress is meant to be the counterpart of str compress and decompress whatever it compresses.
❯ "ABCDEFG" | str compress --brotli | str decompress --brotli
ABCDEFG❯ "ABCDEFG" | str compress --flate | str decompress --flate
ABCDEFG❯ "ABCDEFG" | str compress --zlib | str decompress --zlib
ABCDEFGstr dedent removes common leading whitespace from every line in a text while preserving relative indentation.
❯ " line 1\n line 2\n line 3" | str dedent
line 1
line 2
line 3str indent adds a specified number of leading spaces to each line in a text.
❯ "line 1\nline 2\nline 3" | str indent " "
line 1
line 2
line 3str wrap wraps each line in a text to a specified width.
Wrap text at 10 columns
> "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" | str wrap --width 10
now is the
time for
all good
men to
come to
the aid of
their
countryWrap text at 10 columns using optimal-fit
> "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" | str wrap --width 10 --optimal-fit
now is
the time
for all
good men
to come
to the aid
of their
country