Text Pieces

Swiss knife of text processing

Small tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding and so on. Written in Vala for GNOME desktop in hope to be useful.

Features

Base64 encoding and decoding
SHA1, SHA2 and MD5 checksums
Prettify and minify JSON
Covert JSON to YAML and vice versa
Count lines, symbols and words
Escape and unescape string, URL and HTML
Remove leading and trailing whitespaces
Sort and reverse sort lines
Reverse lines and whole text
You can write your own scripts and create custom tools

Installation

From Flathub

Recommended

You can install my app from Flathub here

Build from source

Via GNOME Builder

Text Pieces can be built with GNOME Builder >= 3.38. Just clone this repo and click run button.

Via Flatpak

Text Pieces has Flatpak manifest, so it can be built with Flatpak.

Via Meson

Text Pieces can be built directly via Meson:

git clone https://github.com/liferooter/textpieces
cd textpieces
meson _build
cd _build
meson compile

Next, it can be installed by meson install.

Attention! You should NEVER install anything directly with meson install or make install because it creates unmanaged files and can break system. Consider building a package for your distro and install it.

Dependencies

If you use GNOME Builder or Flatpak, dependencies will be installed automatically. If you use pure Meson, dependencies will be:

vala >= 0.52
gtk >= 4.2
gtksourceview >= 5.2
gio >= 2.50
json-glib >= 1.6
libadwaita >= 1.0
python >= 3.8
pyyaml >= 5.4

Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

vikdevelop/textpieces