redact

Small cli util that redacts path refs from stdin.

It will also clean up:

• References to node executable path will be replaced with node
• Any $HOME env variable will be replaced with a literal string
• Normalize paths (windows \\ will be replaced with /)

It can also be used with positional arguments to customize what word should be redact and what should be the replacement text by default.

Usage

You may install this package in the global system space and pipe any output into redact for cleaned up output:

$ npm install -g @ruyadorno/redact
$ my_cmd | redact

OR alternatively, install+run on demand using npm exec:

$ my_cmd | npm exec @ruyadorno/redact

Customizing

You may also customize what word to be redacted and define a new replacement by providing additional positional arguments to redact, e.g:

$ my_cmd
Foo bar baz
$ my_cmd | redact bar REDACTED
Foo REDACTED baz

Note: this might or might not be simpler than trying to remember sed's syntax

Example

Cleaning up your system path from npm logs so that you can better share them with the world:

$ npm i 2>&1 --loglevel=verbose | redact

npm verb cli [
npm verb cli   'node',
npm verb cli   '<path>/main',
npm verb cli   'i',
npm verb cli   '--loglevel=verbose'
npm verb cli ]
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
...
npm timing command:install Completed in 0ms
npm verb stack TypeError: Cannot read property 'bar' of undefined
npm verb stack     at Install.install (<path>/main/lib/install.js:113:40)
npm verb stack     at Install.exec (<path>/main/lib/install.js:108:10)
npm verb stack     at Object.[_runCmd] (<path>/main/lib/npm.js:116:12)
npm verb stack     at <path>/main/lib/npm.js:28:35
npm verb stack     at Object.<anonymous> (<path>/main/lib/cli.js:61:7)
npm verb cwd <path>/main
npm verb Darwin 19.6.0
npm verb argv "node" "<path>/main" "i" "--loglevel=verbose"
npm verb node v16.0.0
npm verb npm  v7.10.0
npm ERR! Cannot read property 'bar' of undefined
npm verb exit 1
npm timing npm Completed in 198ms
npm verb code 1

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     $HOME/.npm/_logs/2021-04-20T20_06_13_794Z-debug.log

License

MIT