brace-compression

Reverse brace expansion (like sh/bash)

Warnings

• the output is not escaped or necessarily safe to parse using the shell - this is just meant to compress data for human-readable purposes.
• may not work in every case
• output is an array

Example

var compress = require('brace-compression');
var data = [
    'foo-1',
    'foo-2',
    'foo-3'
];

var s = compress(data).join(' ');
console.log(s);
// => "foo-{1..3}"

The input array should be sorted before being passed to compress

CLI

$ cat file.txt
foo-1
foo-2
foo-3
$ cat file.txt | brace-compress
foo-{1..3}

Installation

npm install [-g] brace-compression

License

MIT License