lipsum-cli is a small terminal application written in Rust language.

Civan Yavuzşen

Last update: Nov 28, 2022

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Utilities cli-app lorem-ipsum lorem terminal-app random-text lorem-ipsum-generator

Overview

lipsum-cli

lipsum-cli is a small terminal application written in Rust language. It's used for generating pseudo-Latin lorem ipsum filler text in terminal.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat…

This application uses lipsum library to generate text.

It also has the ability to generate text from a file or stdin.

INSTALLATION

Using Cargo

cargo install lipsum-cli

Using Homebrew

brew tap xlith/lipsum-cli
brew install lipsum-cli

USAGE

lipsum-cli [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -f, --file                   File input for the custom source. This has priority to stdin.
                                       If not specified, stdin is used
    -h, --help                         Print help information
    -t, --text-source     Text source to choose from. Ignored if stdin or `-f` is used
                                       [default: liber-primus] [possible values: liber-primus,
                                       lorem-ipsum]
    -V, --version                      Print version information
    -w, --words                 Count of words to generate. Default is 5 if text source is
                                       not liber-primus

EXAMPLES

This will generate a string using Liber Primus like Grate Meminit et Praesentibus which should be suitable for use in a document title for section heading.

$ lipsum-cli 
Dolore sed in his Rebus Instructus

This will generate a string of 5 words from a file (lorem-ipsum.txt)

$ lipsum-cli --file ./start-wars.txt
Weapon, the DEATH STAR, an.

This will generate a string of 5 words from stdin

$ cat start-wars.txt | lipsum-cli
The Empire’s sinister agents, Princess.

This will generate a string of 10 words from a file (lorem-ipsum.txt)

$ lipsum-cli --file star-wars.txt --words 10
Aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can.

This will generate a string of 10 words from stdin

$ cat star-wars.txt | lipsum-cli --words 10
The stolen plans that can save her people and restore.

This will generate a string of 10 words using the lorem ipsum example filler text beginning with “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet”

$ lipsum-cli lorem-ipsum --words 10
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do.

CONTRIBUTING

This is my first Rust project, so I'm sure there are some mistakes. If you have any questions, comments or ideas, please feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue.

Contribution Guidelines:

Fork the repository on GitHub
Create a new branch
Commit your changes
Push your branch to GitHub
Open a pull request

LICENSE

This project is licensed under the MIT license. Contributions will be accepted under the same license.

Release History

This is a changelog describing the most important changes per release.

Version 0.2.0 — 19.02.2022

Completely rewritten and redesigned the application to be more modular and easier to use.
Fix lots of text and typos.
Added unit tests.

Version 0.1.0 — 20.02.2022

Initial release

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Comments

Problematic tty options
Hi. Thanks for sharing this project!

I'm trying to use this together with rofi and I found there is a problem when using lipsum-cli with pipes.

The docs says:

cat start-wars.txt | lipsum-cli The Empire’s sinister agents, Princess.

But if you try to use lipsum-cli with xargs

echo "lipsum-cli -w 10" | xargs -i /bin/bash -c "{}"

You always get an empty response. I think this is because: if atty::isnt(Stream::Stdin) sets the input_source to stdin, and there is no stdin.

I think a possible solution would be change the precedence described here:

-t, --text-source <TEXT_SOURCE> Text source to choose from. Ignored if stdin or -f is used

So if you specify a -t value, it won't read from stdin, and pipes can be used freely.
opened by mariano-dagostino 2