str kebab-case for strings

Convert a string to kebab-case.

WARNING

Command str kebab-case was not included in the official binaries by default, you have to build it with --features=extra flag

Signature

> str kebab-case {flags} ...rest

Parameters

  • ...rest: For a data structure input, convert strings at the given cell paths

Input/output types:

inputoutput
list<string>list<string>
recordrecord
stringstring
tabletable

Examples

convert a string to kebab-case

> 'NuShell' | str kebab-case
nu-shell

convert a string to kebab-case

> 'thisIsTheFirstCase' | str kebab-case
this-is-the-first-case

convert a string to kebab-case

> 'THIS_IS_THE_SECOND_CASE' | str kebab-case
this-is-the-second-case

convert a column from a table to kebab-case

> [[lang, gems]; [nuTest, 100]] | str kebab-case lang
╭───┬─────────┬──────╮
 # │  lang   │ gems │
├───┼─────────┼──────┤
 0  nu-test   100 
╰───┴─────────┴──────╯