Convert local and remote files containing unicode escapes to characters!

$ npm install --global unicode-escape-convert

OR

$ sudo npm install --global unicode-escape-convert

 Usage : uec <command> [file/text] <option> [arg]
 Commands : <Conversion - Unicode escapes to characters>
 -l, --local Convert local files
 -r, --remote Convert remote files
 -t, --text Convert and print oneline text
 Options :
 --read Read the content of a local file
 --save Save the local or remote file with a desirable name
 NOTE : <options> works with command --local and --remote
 Files will get saved with a random name if --save is not provided!

• Suppose you've an unescaped unicode like \ud83d\ude01 and you can want to convert it into the character, which is 😁. You can simply do -

$ uec -t "\ud83d\ude01"

Data will always be under single or double quotes!

• For locally saved file filled with unescaped unicodes. Suppose you've a file called unicorn.txt or unicorn.json and you want to convert it. Just do -

$ uec -l unicorn.txt

• Alternatively, you can provide --save flag to save the file, which can be followed by another flag as a name of the file, for example -

$uec -l unicorn.txt --save somename

But, by default, the files will be saved with names like somename-unicorn.txt or somename-unicorn.json.

• In case you just want to print the output without saving it as a new file, you can do the following -

$ uec -l unicorn.json --read

NOTE : Currently, there is no support to add path of the file in order to do the conversion, --local command works only if the file is in same directory!

• For remote files, there is a condition - The requsted data should be in the form of txt/json. For the sake of testing, I've uploaded two files to check the functionality
  • json
  • txt

Now, to read the remote files, you can do -

$ uec -r https://goo.gl/19PySg

You don't need --read flag in order to do so. For saving the online file, You just need to -

$ uec -r https://goo.gl/19PySg --save <optional-name>

NOTE : I just made this for personal use. I hope other find it helpful too!

• unicodechar-string : Convert unicode escapes to characters!

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