shell-api

Overview

A robust set of POSIX-compliant scripts for shell environments.

Shell support

The goal is to provide a simple API that is compatible with Bourne-like shells on *nix systems.

All functions have been tested in bash, dash, fish, ksh, and zsh.

The API

• confirm
• export-file
• join-file
• pipe-file
• print-text
• read-file
• require
• start-daemon
• stop-daemon
• strict-mode
• terminate
• watch-daemon
• write-file

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Getting started

Install

• Install this project via npm.

  npm i shell-api --save
  

• Symlink the shell directory within a project.

  ln -s ./node_modules/shell-api/shell ./.shell
  

Usage

Method A

#!/usr/bin/env sh

script_path=$(cd "$(dirname "${0}")"; pwd)
shell_api_path="${script_path}/../.shell"

# Load the whole framework at once
. "${shell_api_path}"/shell-api

export-file ./.env
require <SCRIPT>

...

Method B

#!/usr/bin/env sh

script_path=$(cd "$(dirname "${0}")"; pwd)
shell_api_path="${script_path}/../.shell"

# Selectively load parts of the framework
. "${shell_api_path}"/strict-mode
. "${shell_api_path}"/export-file
. "${shell_api_path}"/require

export-file ./.env
require <SCRIPT>

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