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nms — Tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers from `stdin`.

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Problem

How to use the nms command: Tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers from stdin. More information: <https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets>.

Solution

nms — Tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers from stdin. More information: <https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets>.

Decrypt text after a keystroke:

echo "{{Hello, World!}}" | nms

Decrypt output immediately, without waiting for a keystroke:

{{ls -la}} | nms -a

Decrypt the content of a file, with a custom output color:

cat {{path/to/file}} | nms -a -f {{blue|white|yellow|black|magenta|green|red}}

Clear the screen before decrypting:

{{command}} | nms -a -c

Code Snippets

Decrypt text after a keystroke

echo "{{Hello, World!}}" | nms

Decrypt output immediately, without waiting for a keystroke

{{ls -la}} | nms -a

Decrypt the content of a file, with a custom output color

cat {{path/to/file}} | nms -a -f {{blue|white|yellow|black|magenta|green|red}}

Clear the screen before decrypting

{{command}} | nms -a -c

Context

tldr-pages: common/nms

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