This project is not used anymore and was archived 2023-06-23.
Port of Gentoo's functions.sh to other *nixes.
Gentoo provides a number of functions for providing feedback on scripts and services. This is a port of those functions to other linuxes such as Ubuntu, so that scripts continue to work.
Output a message prefixed with a green, yellow or red asterisk.
einfo "Stuff happens"
ewarn "Dangerous stuff happens"
eerror "Oh noes!" * Some message
* Dangerous stuff happens
* Oh noes!
(GitHub-flavour markdown doesn't support colours...)
The same as above, but without the newline at the end of each.
einfo "Stuff happens"
ewarn "Dangerous stuff happens"
eerror "Oh noes!" * Some message * Dangerous stuff happens * Oh noes!
ebegin outputs a message like einfo, with a trailing ellipsis ...
eend appends a good or bad message to the previous line. It's often called with $?, a variable representing the return value of the last command
ebegin Rejigging the squinks
somecommand
eend $? * Rejigging the squinks... [ ok ]
Increase or decrease the indent on subsequent messages.
einfo "Doing three things"
eindent
ebegin "First thing"
firstcommand
eend $?
ebegin "Second thing"
secondcommand
eend $?
ebegin "Third thing"
thirdcommand
eend $?
eoutdent * Doing three things
* First thing... [ ok ]
* Second thing... [ ok ]
* Third thing... [ ok ]
Evaluate this to get access to the colours it uses.
eval $(eval_ecolors)
echo "$GOOD green $WARN yellow $BAD red" green yellow red
The following commands aren't part of the traditional package, but they're useful so I've added them anyway.
Prefixes stdin with the current indent.
eindent
eindent
eindent
somecommand | eprefix Command output, prefixed with spaces
If you also add the word info, warn or error, it'll prefix stdin with the appropriate asterisk.
eindent
eindent
eindent
somecommand | eprefix info * Command output, prefixed with spaces and an asterisk