Utilities for finding similar things.

Returns the line of input that most closely matches the given text.

cat names | like wombat

Returns the filename in a set of directories that most closely matches the given text.

find-like app/models/user.rb tests spec

Sorts lines from stdin by Levenshtein distance.

cat names | lsort

Options:

• -w calculate Levenshtein distance using words instead of letters.

Creates a graph of lines from stdin by Levenshtein distance.

Default output is 3 integers: a line number, the line number of the line that most closely matches the line at the first line number, and the Levenshtein distance between the two lines.

cat names | lgraph

Options:

• -w calculate Levenshtein distance using words instead of letters
• -l print whole lines instead of line numbers (takes four lines per edge rather than one)