Sttr

sttr Plugin

Cross-platform CLI app to perform various operations on strings. Transform, encode, decode, and manipulate text.

Commands

String Transformation

• sttr transform string — Transform string with various operations

Utility

• sttr _ _ — Passthrough to sttr CLI

Usage Examples

• "Base64 encode this string"
• "Decode this URL"
• "Convert YAML to JSON"
• "Calculate MD5 hash"

Installation

brew install abhimanyu003/sttr/sttr

Or via Go:

go install github.com/abhimanyu003/sttr@latest

Examples

# Base64 encode
sttr transform string base64-encode "Hello World"

# Base64 decode
sttr transform string base64-decode "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ="

# MD5 hash
sttr transform string md5 "Hello World"

# URL encode
sttr transform string url-encode "hello world"

# URL decode
sttr transform string url-decode "hello%20world"

# YAML to JSON
sttr transform string yaml-json file.yaml > file-output.json

# JSON to YAML
sttr transform string json-yaml file.json

# From file
sttr transform string md5 file.txt

# From stdin
echo "Hello World" | sttr transform string md5

# Chain operations
sttr transform string md5 "hello" | sttr transform string base64-encode

# Interactive mode
sttr

# Any sttr command with passthrough
sttr _ _ md5 "Hello World"
sttr _ _ base64-encode -i input.txt

Key Features

• 50+ operations - Encode, decode, hash, convert
• File support - Read from files
• Stdin support - Pipe data from other commands
• Chaining - Chain multiple operations
• Interactive mode - Browse operations
• Cross-platform - Linux, macOS, Windows
• Fast - Written in Go
• Extensible - Plugin architecture

Operations Include

• Encoding: base64, url, html
• Hashing: md5, sha1, sha256, sha512
• Conversion: json-yaml, yaml-json, xml-json
• Text: upper, lower, title, reverse
• Crypto: encrypt, decrypt
• And many more

Notes

• Interactive mode with sttr (no args)
• Use -h for operation-specific help
• Can write output to file with >
• Great for data transformation pipelines