Saturday, April 2, 2011
command line tool for creating outline summary
A while back I thought I saw a command line tool that would create an hierarchical outline summary from tab-indented text... but I couldn't find it. So it was easier to just write this script than keep googling for it.
This is a command line tool that takes tab indented text and creates a formatted outline summary (based on the level of indentation). I know that most word processors do outlines automatically, but I tend to prefer keeping all my notes in plain ASCII text. This works in Linux and/or vim editor as well.
This works with Roman Numeral format (I A 1 a i), or the more modern Decimal formats (1, 1.2, 1.2.3).
Update 11/25/2015: I improved this script and uploaded to github:
https://github.com/sevkeifert/text-utils/blob/master/outline
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