abbr-cli

A command-line tool to look up abbreviations for terms (and the reverse). The abbreviations (or the terms in reverse lookup) are extracted from abbreviations.com.

$ abbr configuration
(5/5) cfg
(4/5) config
(-/5) conf
(-/5) cnf

$ abbr --reverse alloc
(3/5) Allocation
(-/5) Allocate

Table of content

• Installation
• Exploring the arguments
• A little better than abbreviations.com

Installation

• Python version 3.6 or greater is required.
• Install via pip command:

$ pip install abbr-cli

Exploring the arguments

$ abbr configuration
(5/5) cfg
(4/5) config
(-/5) conf
(-/5) cnf

$ abbr configuration --with-category
(5/5) cfg ~ Miscellaneous, Computing
(4/5) config ~ Governmental
(-/5) conf ~ Computing
(-/5) cnf ~ Computing

$ abbr configuration --only-words
cfg
config
conf
cnf

$ abbr configuration --min-stars 4
(5/5) cfg
(4/5) config

$ abbr configuration --limit 1
(5/5) cfg

A little better than abbreviations.com

• No duplicates.
• Abbreviations with a single charater are removed.
• A single abbreviation (or term in case of --reverise flag) with multiple cateogries (and sometimes subcategories) are merged in a single line. Subcategories are removed to avoid clutter. The rating will be the average rating.

# instead of getting
$ abbr command --with-category
(5/5) cmd ~ Governmental/NASA
(4/5) cmd ~ Governmental/Military
(4/5) cmd ~ Computing/DOSCommands
(5/5) cmd ~ Computing
(-/5) cmd ~ Miscellaneous/Aircraft
...

# you will get
$ abbr command --with-category
(4/5) cmd ~ Governmental, Computing, Miscellaneous
...

• Abbreviations are normalized to lowercase, while terms are normatlized to title case.

# instead of getting
$ abbr address
(4/5) ADD
(3/5) addr
...

# you will get
$ abbr address
(4/5) add
(3/5) addr
...