A command-line tool to look up abbreviations for terms (and the reverse). The abbreviations, or the terms in reverse lookup, are extracted from abbreviations.com.
$ abbr configuration
(5/5) cfg
(4/5) config
(-/5) conf
(-/5) cnf
$ abbr --reverse alloc
(3/5) Allocation
(-/5) Allocate
- Python version 3.6 or greater is required.
- Install via
pipcommand:
$ pip install abbr-cli
$ abbr -h
Look up abbreviations for terms.
Usage:
abbr [options] <term>
abbr [options] -r <abbreviation>
abbr (-h | --help)
abbr --version
Options:
--version Show version.
-h --help Show this screen.
-r --reverse Reverse the look up. Find terms for an abbreviation.
-n --limit <n> Limit the number of result [default: 25].
-m --min-stars <m> Include only items with number of stars equal or above <m>.
Allowed values are 0-5 (inclusive) [default: 0].
-w --only-words List only the words (terms or abbreviations) without category
and rating. Helpful when used in a bash script.
-c --with-category Include categories along with the word.
$ abbr configuration
(5/5) cfg
(4/5) config
(-/5) conf
(-/5) cnf
$ abbr configuration --with-category
(5/5) cfg ~ Miscellaneous, Computing
(4/5) config ~ Governmental
(-/5) conf ~ Computing
(-/5) cnf ~ Computing
$ abbr configuration --only-words
cfg
config
conf
cnf
$ abbr configuration --min-stars 4
(5/5) cfg
(4/5) config
$ abbr configuration --limit 1
(5/5) cfg
- No duplicates.
- Single-character abbreviations are excluded.
- A single abbreviation (or term in case of
--reverseflag) with multiple categories (and sometimes subcategories) are merged in a single line. Subcategories are removed to avoid clutter. The rating will be the average rating.
# instead of getting
$ abbr command --with-category
(5/5) cmd ~ Governmental/NASA
(4/5) cmd ~ Governmental/Military
(4/5) cmd ~ Computing/DOSCommands
(5/5) cmd ~ Computing
(-/5) cmd ~ Miscellaneous/Aircraft
...
# you will get
$ abbr command --with-category
(4/5) cmd ~ Governmental, Computing, Miscellaneous
...
- Abbreviations are normalized to lowercase, while terms are normalized to title case.
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