About this tool

Crab (🦀) is abbreviation from "CReate ABbreviations". If you have keywords for your project, but you can't invent name for your project, then Crab will help you.

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Requirements

• Windows 10 1607 or newer
• Android: Termux
• Linux
• MacOS

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Where to get it?

Go to Releases and select crab.exe if you are on Windows or crab for Android (Termux)

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Flags of this tool

-D flag

Consider following command line:

$ crab "Lazataknes Software"

Its output will be lazataknsw. Did not you like software was shorten to sw? There is -D goes to help you!

Let's try it!

$ crab -D "Lazataknes Software"

Its output will be lazatasof.

-P flag

Consider following command line:

$ crab "Mike at home"

Its output will be mikathom.

Did at spoil all? Don't worry! You can run crab with -P flag! Let's try it!

$ crab -P "Mike at home"

Its output will be mikeho.

-s flag

Consider following command line:

$ crab "What is laptop?"

Its output will be whaslaptop.

Do you want to remix it? No problems! -s flag will help you.

Try it:

$ crab -s "What is laptop?"

Its output will be: swhl.

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-r flag

Consider following command line:

$ crab "computer game"

Its output will be: compg.

Did you tire to enter crab "computer game" every time? Then -r flag will help you!

Try it:

$ crab -r=5 "computer game"

Its output will be:

compgame
compg
compgam
compga
compga

-u flag

Consider following command line:

$ crab "small company which makes games"

Its output will be: smcomwhichmg.

This abbreviation is too long, isn't it? There is -u flag which shortens word maximally.

Try it:

$ crab -u "small company which makes games"

Its output will be: scowmgam.

-x flag

Consider following command line:

$ crab -u "small company which makes games"

Do you remember the past abbreviation? It is short, but if you want to more, you can use -x flag, which excludes some keywords.

Try it:

$ crab -x -u "small company which makes games"

Its output will be: scowhm.

Dictionary

All abbreviations like sw - software, tv - television, 0 - nothing, etc. crab takes from dict.txt.

⚠️ Caution: If you will remove dict.txt, then crab won't run (however, you can bypass it by -D flag).

Adding or removing words

Adding

If you want to add word, then append abbreviation like abbr - abbreviation into end of dict.txt.

✔️ Examples:

• mem - memory
• gpu - videocard
• ver - version
• kb - keyboard
• snd - sound

➡️ Notes:

1. The abbreviations which values contain more than word, must be put first in dict.txt, otherwise crab won't run!
2. Empty lines and spaces are forbidden in dict.txt

❎ Please, do NOT write like:

• V - volume, version
• X - extended, execute

Removing

Just remove disliked abbreviation! It is simple, isn't it?

Behavior when dict.txt has values-duplicates (e.g. V - volume, vol - volume)

The first key (V) will have mory priority than the second.

When you will have questions, then...

...make an issue!