slugme

#!/bin/bash

# takes string with spaces, &s, uppercase and converts to slug--lowercase, replace spaces and slashes with dashes and ampersands with and
# then copies to OSX clipboard

# establish number of arguments; will check later that they were supplied
EXPECTED_ARGS=1

# check that argument was passed
if [ $# -ne $EXPECTED_ARGS ]
then
  echo "Usage: $0 basename"
  exit
fi

echo $1 | tr A-Z a-z | sed 's/&/-and-/g' | sed "s/['|!|?|!|\;|:|\(|\)]//g" | sed 's/ *- */-/g' | sed 's/\//-/g' |  sed 's/"//g' | tr [:blank:] - | pbcopy

echo $1 | tr A-Z a-z | sed 's/&/-and-/g' | sed "s/['|!|?|!|\;|:|\(|\)]//g" | sed 's/ *- */-/g' | sed 's/\//-/g' |  sed 's/"//g' | tr [:blank:] -

echo "copied to clipboard"