syn
Syntax control for the command line.
syn uses OS X's natural language processing tools to tokenize and highlight text (from standard input) that matches specified tags.
Inspired by iA Writer.
Install
syn requires OS X 10.7 or above.
$ curl -LOs https://github.com/stephencelis/syn/releases/download/v0.2.2/syn \
&& chmod 755 syn \
&& mv syn /usr/local/binOr clone/download the repository and run make install (requires
Xcode to be installed).
Usage
E.g.,
# find pesky adverbs
$ syn --adverbs < nanowrimo.txt
# highlight nouns and noun-likes
$ syn --nouns --pronouns --personal-names --place-names < nanowrimo.txt
# peruse the classics
$ curl -Ls http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231.txt.utf-8 | \
syn -A | \
less -r
# generate listicles
$ syn -a -ftable < moby-dick.txt | \
cut -d ' ' -f4 | sort -f | uniq -ci | sort -nr | head -10 | tr a-z A-Z
441 OLD
430 OTHER
305 SUCH
290 GREAT
275 LAST
238 LITTLE
215 SAME
199 OWN
199 GOOD
191 WHITE-h,
usage: syn [tags] [-f <formatter=ansi>] [-vh]
Tags:
-n, --nouns Match nouns
-V, --verbs Match verbs
-a, --adjectives Match adjectives
-A, --adverbs Match adverbs
-N, --pronouns Match pronouns
-d, --determiners Match determiners
-p, --particles Match particles
-P, --prepositions Match prepositions
-1, --numbers Match numbers
-c, --conjunctions Match conjunctions
-i, --interjections Match interjections
-C, --classifiers Match classifiers
-I, --idioms Match idioms
-H, --personal-names Match personal (human) names
-l, --place-names Match place names (locations)
Configuration:
-f, --formatter One of 'ansi', 'table', or 'json'
-v, --version Show version
-h, --help Show this screen
License
syn is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.