NAME

a8e - Abbreviate words in the input stream

SYNOPSIS

a8e [OPTIONS]

Abbreviate words by leaving the first and last letter of them and replace internal letters by the number indicating how many were they. Like l10n, i18n, and a11y the conventional abbreviation of localization, internationalization, and accessibility respectively.

OPTIONS

-m, --minlength N

Abbreviate words at least N (default 4) char long. Useful to be greater than the boundary letters kept (see -l, -t, and -k) plus one.

-l, --leading-letters N

-t, --trailing-letters N

-k, --keep-letters N

Set how many letter to keep at the beginning of words by -l, or at the end by -t, or set both at once by -k (default is 1 for both)

-r, --word-pattern REGEX

What counts as a word? (default [a-zA-Z]+)