jkit maker

Read line-separated text and emit a JSON string array. Great for turning a list you copied from somewhere into valid JSON in one step.

jkit maker          # full name
jkit m              # short alias

Synopsis

jkit maker [--unique]
jkit m     [-u]

Flag	Description
--unique, -u	Drop duplicate lines. First-seen order is preserved.

Reads from stdin or the clipboard — see Input handling.

What it does

• Splits the input on \n (also handles \r\n for Windows clipboard content).
• TrimSpace each line.
• Drops empty lines (after trimming).
• With -u, drops duplicates while preserving first-seen order.
• Emits the result as a 4-space-indented JSON string array.

Examples

Basic

> printf 'apple\nbanana\ncherry\n' | jkit m

[
    "apple",
    "banana",
    "cherry"
]

Empty lines and whitespace are cleaned up

> printf 'apple\n\n  banana  \n\ncherry\n' | jkit m

[
    "apple",
    "banana",
    "cherry"
]

Drop duplicates with -u

> printf 'apple\nbanana\napple\n' | jkit m -u

[
    "apple",
    "banana"
]

From clipboard

Copy a list (e.g. from a markdown bullet list, paste it into a chat, etc.), then:

> jkit m

[
    "Hi, I'm E99p1ant. 🍆",
    "🐭 Focus on Golang.",
    "🏠 Blog at github.red."
]

Edge cases

• All blank input yields an empty array [].
• Each line is JSON-encoded, so embedded quotes and special characters are escaped automatically.