Balderdash [WIP]

Balderdash is a profanity checker tool for your codebase. It was created to that you won't have to worry about mistakenly commiting curse words or some not-so-appropriate words to your main branch.

It's a simple shell script and can run on almost any Unix system. It was created in shell due to how simple it was to write it. I have no plans of moving it to other languages and adding more graphic features.

Features

• Extremely fast search using ag.
• Multi language support.
• Custom white-list/ black-list support.
• Files in .gitignore and .ignore are automatically ignored.
• Very modular CLI.
• Pre commit hook support.
• [TODO] Github actions support.

Installation

You'll need to have ag installed in your system. ag is very fast code searcher.

The following script adds balderdash script to your /bin.

curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CaffeineDuck/Balderdash/main/install.sh | bash

You'll need to run init after installing the script.

balderdash init

Using pre-commit hook

• Add to your hooks.

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/caffeineDuck/balderdash
    rev: $LATEST_VERSION
    hooks:
      - id: balderdash

• Install the balderdash CLI and run the balderdash init command.

CLI Usage Examples

• Checking the current directory for profanity

balderdash check

• Checking specific dir for profanity

balderdash check -d dir/

• Checking specific file for profanity

balderdash check -f app.py

• Checking from your custom parsed wordlist

bash check -f app.py -w parsed_wordlist.txt

Note: Your wordlist must follow Extended Regex format

CLI Reference

Balderdash is a tool to find profanity in files

Usage: balderdash [command] [options]

Commands:
  init|i: Initialize the config file
  help|h: Display this help message
  check|c <-f|-c|-w|-d>: Check a file/dir for profanity
  download|dw <-c>: Download the profanity list according to language selection

Options:
  -f [FILE]: Specify a file to check
  -c [FILE]: Specify a config file
  -d [DIR]: Specify a directory to check
  -w [FILE]: Specify a file containing profanity words list

Configuration

You can configure how the CLI and works through the config file in your ~/.config/balderdash/balderdash.conf file. It can be used to customize blacklisted words, white-listed words.

• Add new language to the checker (balderdash.conf):

LANGUAGES=(en np fr au)

You can check the list of supported languages in the words directory. You can create a PR and add your own language or words to a specific language there

• Add custom white-listed/ black-listed words (balderdash.conf):

DEFAULT_WHITELIST=(gosh shit)
DEFAULT_BLACKLIST=(sudo pipenv)

If it's a multi word black-list/ white-list wrap it in double quotes