text processing Archives

chop – command-line stream filter for to-do lists

chop normalises plain-text to-do entries and filters them by completion status, reading standard input and writing script-friendly output.

scooter is an interactive terminal find-and-replace tool with regex captures, multiline matching, selective changes and syntax previews.

Ucto splits multilingual text into tokens and sentences, handles punctuation and normalisation, and supports FoLiA annotated output.

boxes decorates text with configurable ASCII borders for documentation, banners and source comments, with alignment and unboxing tools.

FIGlet converts ordinary text into large ASCII banners using varied fonts, with controls for alignment, spacing, kerning and smushing.

cowsay creates a talking ASCII cow and other characters with custom speech bubbles, selectable cowfiles and different expressions.

ugrep searches source code, archives and documents using regular expressions, fuzzy matching and an interactive terminal interface.