frmt is a CLI format convertor for those who live in the terminal.

It was built for my own convenience and thought it'd be cool to turn this into a tool that anyone can use. Go was the first choice due to the ease of making CLI tools with the language.

Pronounced as format.

go install github.com/Shobhit-Nagpal/frmt@latest

brew tap Shobhit-Nagpal/frmt

brew install frmt

• To check the directory where frmt is installed:

which frmt

git clone [email protected]:Shobhit-Nagpal/frmt.git

sudo mv frmt /bin/

• Once the binary file has been moved to /bin/ directory, you can start using frmt as you'd like :)

brew uninstall frmt

To remove the binary from your bin directory:

which frmt

sudo rm $(which frmt) 

To convert your file into another format, execute the following command:

frmt -p <FILE_PATH> -f <DESIRED_FORMAT>

• Converted file is created in your present working directory (aka where you executed the command)

• File paths can be relative and/or absolute

• Format flag is case insensitive

• For information on flags, run

frmt -h

• PNG
• JPG / JPEG
• BMP
• PDF
• TIF / TIFF

The way frmt works is pretty simple.

• First, it takes your file path and desired format as arguments/flags
• It converts the file path to an absolute path and then checks if the file exists
• If the file exists, it checks if the file is already present in the desired format
• If the file is not in its desired format, it creates a new file which is the converted format of the original file
• Error handling is done at each stage

• Give pdf as input and convert to desired format