If you want to transform text in either way or form, you can always turn to either your computer’s default text editor, or find an appropriate tool online.
However, if you do a lot of text transformations, local tools are typically more efficient. The problem with most text editors is that they’re somewhat limited when it comes to text transformation tools apart from replacing words, strings or expressions, removing lines and spaces.
This is definitely not the case with Text Pieces, the Swiss-army knife of text transformation tools. It’s a free, open-source Linux application that allows you to perform various transformations usually outside the scope of typical text editors.
Very competent text transformation app
Here’s what you can do with Text Pieces: calculate hashes, encode and decode text, remove trailing spaces and lines, count lines, symbos, and words, as well as format JSON and XML documents.
In addition, the app also provides you with a quick way to filter lines, replace substrings and complex regular expressions, as well as convert JSON to YAML (and vice-versa).
Of course, the main appeal of Text Pieces is its impressive set of pre-defined tools. However, if the tool you are looking for is not in Text Pieces’ feature set, you can simply build it yourself and use it as effortlessly as any of its default tools.
For such a small tool, Text Pieces also offers a surprising amount of configuration. For instance, from the Settings menu, you can choose the font, toggle between three GUI modes, as well as wrap lines and choose the tab width (in spaces).
Verdict
To conclude, Text Pieces is a stylish, lightweight, and very very capable tool for text transformations. It’s feature set is impressive, but the fact that it also allows users to add their own tools from the GUI makes it relevant in pretty much all situations.
