aghast: the human-friendly hash translator

USAGE

Aghast translates unpronounceable hashes into friendly names and vice-versa. For example, we can invoke aghast with some hashes we got from git:

$ aghast 9f23a18123901 a2ce23
 Cluttered Essential Stingray
 Colorful Ill Cockroach

Note that Aghast only bothers with the first seven characters of the hash, thus these produce the same results:

$ aghast 9f23a18123901 9f23a1812 9f23a18
 Cluttered Essential Stingray
 Cluttered Essential Stingray
 Cluttered Essential Stingray

Aghast can also go the other way, translating the human-friendly names back into hashes:

$ aghast 'Cluttered Essential Stingray' 'Colorful Ill Cockroach'
 9f23a1
 a2ce23 

Be sure to surround those names in quotes when on the command line! Aghast will also gladly read from STDIN for you if '-' is supplied as an argument:

$ echo '9f23a1' | ./aghast -
 Cluttered Essential Stingray

VERSION 2

Version 2 of Aghast fixes a bug that could lead to an irreversible name (50/50 chance if the name contained "adorable") and doubles the number of words available for names. As a result, names generated with version 2 can not be reversed by version 1. All names generated by version 1 can be reversed using version 2, with the possible exception of names containing "adorable". Two options, --v1 and --v2 have been added to force the behaviors of the specified version.

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Written by Justin Whear