Doesn't really follow the Unix principles

[adamkdean]

Sorry to nitpick, this is a good little util, but it doesn't really follow the unix principles.

I should be able to pipe a format to this util like so:

$ echo "Some String" | slugify -d
some-string

It'd also be great if the output was less noisy, so either:

$ slugify -v My\ \ file.txt
my__file.txt

(or no output, as nothing is startling?):

$ slugify -v My\ \ file.txt

Also, just personal opinion, but I think it'd probably be better if the filesystem functionality was optional, rather than default behaviour.

Like I said, sorry to nitpick, just doesn't seem to run the way one would expect!

[benlinton]

Thanks for the input! I'll try to implement your feedback next time I refactor.

[adamkdean]

Appreciate that. Still, thanks for the tool, I'm sure it was useful back in January! 😃

[Mayeu]

Hello 👋,

I'm allowing myself to drop in the conversation 🙏

@adamkdean I have created a minimal slugify script where you just pipe stuff in and it return the slug out. It is bare minimal by design and not feature-full like this one, but maybe that will interest you.

Hope you don't mind me promoting this here 🙊

[adamkdean]

👏 Good job, looks like it works the way I had hoped this project would.

[rulatir]

Good. UNIX principles suck. The typical use case for this utility is "I just downloaded 8G of photos with names like DSC142857 but smaller ąćęłńóśźż ©2024(1)(2) -.jpg and I need all these files renamed to something sane but still reflecting the original intention, FOR YESTERDAY", not "I have three years of free time to learn esoteric bash".