STEMWORDS(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

stemwords — the Snowball word stemming utility, aka the little icon that chops your words down to their roots 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie, listen up, because this one is actually so simple and so useful 🫶

stemwords [-l language] [-i input file] [-o output file] [-c character encoding] [-p[2]] [-h]

So the input file? It's literally just a list of words you want stemmed, one per line ✨. Words should be in lower case, but ngl if you're doing English, the A-Z letters get mapped to their a-z equivalents anyway, so like, it forgives you 💖. And if you don't hand it an input file at all? It just reads from stdin. Easy.

If you pass -c, the argument is the character encoding of the input and output files. If you skip it, UTF-8 is what it uses. Default slay 💅.

Now here's the fun part, the -p situation 🌸:

• If -p is given, the output file is each word from the input file, followed by "->", followed by its stemmed equivalent. So it's giving little before-and-after makeovers 💖
• If -p2 is given, the output file is a two column layout: the input words in the first column, the stemmed equivalents in the second column. Very organized, very demure ✨
• Otherwise (no -p at all), the output file is just the stemmed words, one per line. Clean, minimal, no notes 💅

no cap, that's genuinely the whole thing. three output moods, one tiny tool 😭

bestie, this page came to you from the Snowball girlies, version dated March 2010 🎀 — go stem something and slay 💖✨🦋