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Quick bash slugify

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quick-slugify.sh

echo "$STRING" | iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT | sed -r s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/-/g | sed -r s/^-+\|-+$//g | tr A-Z a-z

janosgyerik commented Nov 9, 2022 •

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It's good to replace multiple sed processes with a single one using multiple -e parameters.

It's good to use [:alnum:] instead of [^a-zA-Z0-9].

It's good to use tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" instead of tr A-Z a-z as a matter of principle for the goal of lowercasing input. To know that tr A-Z a-z is good enough requires verifying what comes before in the pipeline, and knowing how iconv works. That's added mental burden.

Putting it together:

iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT | sed -E -e 's/[^[:alnum:]]+/-/g' -e 's/^-+|-+$//g' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

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