flltr

A small text formatting tool.

Description

Formats text by longest line, by inserting characters at the end of the string. You can insert characters at the beginning or end of the text.

Installation

Build and install with Rust package manager.

cargo install flltr

Installing the package using the Arch package manager.

sudo pacman -U ./flltr-0.2.1x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Installing the package using the Ubuntu package manager.

sudo apt install ./flltr_0.2.1_amd64.deb

Usage:

paste <(ls | flltr) <(ls -1)

The ls command

C='red'; c=$(ls); n=$(($(wc -L <<<$c)+2)); flltr -s' ┌' -c -n$n -f'─' -e'┐' -C$C; flltr -s' │ ' -e' │' <<<$c -C$C; flltr -s' └' -c -n$n -f'─' -e'┘' -C$C

License

GNU General Public License v3.0