bash-boilerplate: enriching bash

Andrei Pavel — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:13:11 +0000

For when you want your humble bash script to have a little more umph!, have at these hiqh level features that can be easily embedded in any project.

https://github.com/andrei-pavel/bash-boilerplate

Libraries

All libraries are found inside lib.

Import any library with:

SCRIPT_PATH="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${0}")")"
. "${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib/${library}"

They all have import guards to make sure no library is imported twice.

header

☑ set -euo pipefail
☑ print-usage function to print all ${ARGUMENTS}
☑ default parameters -c|--config $config_yaml reads the given YAML file and converts all YAML variables to shell variables
☑ default parameters -d|--debug calls set -x for debug mode
☑ default parameters -h|--help calls print-usage() automatically
☑ additional function to print all given arguments other than the default ones above
☑ ANSII colors ${BLACK}, ${RED}, ${GREEN}, ${YELLOW}, ${BLUE}, ${PURPLE}, ${CYAN}, ${WHITE} are exported
☑ ${SCRIPT_PATH}, ${LIB_PATH} paths are exported

spinner

The best bash spinner out there

☑ start-spinner ${text} function to start a spinner with specified ${text}
☑ stop-spinner ${exit_code} function to stop the spinner with success if ${exit_code} is 0, with failure otherwise
☑ disable-spinners function to ignore commands that start and stop spinners
☑ enable-spinners function [default]
☑ disable-verbose function to print output on stopped spinner only if exit code was non-null [default]
☑ enable-verbose function to print output on stopped spinner all the time
☑ configure-spinner-output [full-output|stdout-only|stderr-only|no-output] function
☐ nested spinners

traps

☑ traps [--force|--return-code-only] ${custom_trap} function to set what runs after catching HUP, INT, QUIT, KILL, TERM, EXIT signals
- usually captures return code, disables traps so that they don't run recursively, stops any spinners and then runs the ${custom_trap}
- --force makes it so that only ${custom_trap} is run
- --return-code-only skips over stopping the spinners which is needed in case you're not using spinners

utils

☑ confirm [${custom_question}] function to ask the user a yes or no question
☑ mandatory ${variable} function to check if ${variable} is set, exit 2 otherwise
☑ mandatory-command ${command} function to check if ${command} is available, exit 3 otherwise

yaml-to-env

☑ Simply importing it with

. "${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib/yaml-to-env [${config_yaml}]"

will read ${config_yaml} or ./config.yaml if it is not provided and will
convert all YAML variables to shell variables just like
-c|--config $config_yaml, but programatically instead of user-requested.

Example

See the hello-world example which showcases the different uses of these
arguments.

Usage: hello-world {{options}} {{arguments}}
Options:
  [-c|--config $config_yaml]   Reads from a YAML configuration and converts all
                               key-value pairs with literal values to
                               environment variables.
  [-d|--debug]                 Enables debug mode, showing every executed
                               statement.
  [-h|--help]                  Prints usage (this text).
Arguments:
  [-a|--approval]              whether to ask user for approval
  -n $count                    print $count times
  [-y|--yaml $yaml]            specify path to the configuration file
  [$string]                    something other than "Hello, world!" to print

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