Uclanr

Your hyperspecific brainstorming-focused word generator.

Why does this exist?

I love the unix style of binary names: they either have a cool history behind them, or they're a cute pun.

And see, I'm pretty bad at coming up with those on the spot when creating a new project, so I wanted to have a word generator to aid my inspiration.

Your usual word generator will give you 5 two-letter words before it gives you anything useful though, so I decided to make it give you only the more uncommon words.

With those, I now can generate brainstorming material at will!

What does it do?

It prints a random words to stdout. Very simple.

If you specify a number after the command (uclanr 5), it will print that many random words, separated by spaces.

The words this program uses are ranked by popularity: from 1001st most common word to the 10000th.

From there, I removed all words that are 4 letters long and below, leaving us with words that are at least 5 letters long.

And in the end, we have 7165 possible words. Hyperspecific, I know.

Features

Run uclanr --help to see the help menu.

By default, the random words are joined by a space. You can change that using --joiner or -j. It doesn't necessarily have to be a single character.

If you specify \n in --joiner, it's treated as a newline character; \t is a tab character. Use --raw or -r to disable this functionality.

Use --case or -c to specify the case of the words. Supported values are caps for Capitalized words, title for Title case words and lower for lower case letters which is a default.

Usage

A random word picker that gives you actually useful words.

Usage: uclanr [OPTIONS] [AMOUNT]

Arguments:
  [AMOUNT]  Amount of random words to print [default: 1]

Options:
  -j, --joiner <JOINER>  The string that joines the random words, if there are
                         more than 1 [default: " "]
  -c, --case <CASE>      Sets the case of every word [default: lower] [possible
                         values: caps, title, lower]
  -r, --raw              Disable interpreting \n as a newline and \t as a tab
  -h, --help             Print help
  -V, --version          Print version

Install

cargo install uclanr

cargo-binstall and cargo-quickinstall are also supported

Uninstall

cargo uninstall uclanr