lorem

A command line lorem impsum generator for Mac OS, because sometimes its just easier to type the command.

This simply wraps the excellent LoremSwiftum package by lukaskubanek in a basic command line tool.

Requirements

• Swift 5.5+
• Xcode 13.0+
• macOS 11.0+

Installation

With Mint

$ mint install salishseasoftware/lorem

Manually

Clone the repo then:

$ make install

Or using swift itself:

$ swift build -c release
$ cp .build/release/lorem /usr/local/bin/lorem

Xcode

Generate the Xcode project:

$ swift package generate-xcodeproj
$ open ./lorem.xcodeproj

Build the project, then:

1. Product > Archive
2. Distribute Content
3. Built Products
4. copy the lorem executable to `/usr/local/bin/' or wherever you prefer.

Usage

OVERVIEW: A command line lorem ipsum generator.

USAGE: lorem <subcommand>

OPTIONS:
  -h, --help              Show help information.

SUBCOMMANDS:
  word                    Generates words.
  sentence                Generates sentences.
  paragraph (default)     Generates paragraphs.
  title                   Generates a title.
  name                    Generates a name.
  email-address           Generates an email address.
  url                     Generates a URL.
  tweet                   Generates a tweet.

  See 'lorem help <subcommand>' for detailed help.

The word, sentence, and paragraph subcommands accept a --count option that determines how many of that type are generated.

OVERVIEW: Generates words.

USAGE: lorem word [--count <count>]

OPTIONS:
  -c, --count <count>     Number of items to generate. (default: 1)
  -h, --help              Show help information.

The name subcommand accepts a --portion option to specify whether to generate a first, last, or full name.

OVERVIEW: Generates a name.

USAGE: lorem name [--portion <portion>]

OPTIONS:
  -p, --portion <portion> [first|last|full] (default: first)
  -h, --help              Show help information.

The tweet subcommand accepts a --lenth option to specify whether to generate a short or long tweet.

OVERVIEW: Generates a tweet.

USAGE: lorem tweet [--length <length>]

OPTIONS:
  -l, --length <length>   [short|long] (default: short)
  -h, --help              Show help information.

License

MIT License