Programmers are lazy. Good system administrators are really lazy. (Why bother doing something more than once)?
Unfortunately, due to the fact that Bash doesn't particularly lend itself to reusable code, it doesn't enjoy the same wealth of shared code available that you find with Python or Perl.
"But what about the lazy sysadmin that needs to write a script, where Bash
genuinely is the most appropriate option?", I hear you ask! Well, by providing
functions for many common tasks, I'm hoping that blip will help fill some of
the gaps for those situations.
source /usr/lib/blip.bash
Please see the man page man blip.bash, bash.pod for full
documentation or /usr/share/doc/blip directory for code
examples and other useful information.
On Ubuntu, you can install from my PPA ppa:nicolaw/blip by running the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nicolaw/blip
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blip
On Debian or other Debian-based distributions, you can download the DEB package from GitHub and install it manually with:
curl -o https://github.com/neechbear/blip/releases/download/path/to/blip_pkg.deb
sudo dpkg -i blip_pkg.deb
Similarly for RedHat based distributions you can install the RPM package from GitHub manually with:
sudo yum localinstall https://github.com/neechbear/blip/releases/download/path/to/blip_pkg.rpm
Write instructions for installation from GitHub or source tarball here.
get_user_input() - multi character user input without defaults.STDOUT + STDERR.https://github.com/akesterson/cmdarg - A pure bash library to make argument parsing far less troublesome.