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I like it when I can type a description of the input
and then tab complete things that can do stuff with it.
like...
cat image.png | png2pnm | pnm2sixel > image.sixel
I try to name my tools in this way.
like, uricut, and html_entities_decode
echo uri | uri[tab] will show all the tools that can do URI stuff.
not all of my uri tools read from stdin though so...
I don't know what a good way of naming is for things that use the argument
of a certain type vs stdin of a certain type. maybe prefix with 's' for stream?
like what sed is to ed.
that's kind of messy though and doesn't adapt to what already exists with the
netpbm tools.
what's that one hard problem in computer science?
naming things, right?