Concat

A simple utility for concatenating lines from stdin.

Motivation

I often find myself in the situation where I need to scrape data from logs, use combinations of grep, cut, and sed to extract values, then turn those values into various SQL queries.

The last step is always the most annoying, so I decided to spend a few minutes to make this tool.

Examples

Example file

animals.txt

text Lassie Flipper Willy

Raw

Put everything together with no delimiter or quote marks:

bash $ cat animals.txt | concat LassieFlipperWilly

Let's add quote marks

bash $ cat animals.txt | concat -q "'" 'Lassie''Flipper''Willy'

Let's add a delimiter

bash $ cat animals.txt | concat -d ", " Lassie, Flipper, Willy

Let's do both

bash $ cat animals.txt | concat -q "'" -d ", " 'Lassie', 'Flipper', 'Willy'