Merges separate lines together from standard input, escaping new line characters, and outputting them in chunks to standard output limited by time and/or character count.
My use-case for this is to merge tailed log file output into chunks suitable for a chat bot to send to a room, while respecting rate limits.
To install line-merge-chunks, run:
pip install line-merge-chunks
This will install the script to your ~/.local/bin folder.
To use line-merge-chunks, simply pipe data to it via standard input:
echo -e "Hello,\nworld!" | line-merge-chunks
This will output the following:
Hello,\\nworld!\\n\n
You can also specify the maximum chunk size and wait time using the --max-chars and --max-time options:
echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | line-merge-chunks --max-chars 10 --max-time 0.1
This will output the following:
abcdefghi\njklmnopqr\nstuvwxyz\\n\n
This script is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+).