greatbigdot/scripts

scripts

A collection of semi-useful bash scripts I've written. All were written and tested on GNU bash version 4.4.19.

prelude: Sets a bunch of shell options that I've found to be universally useful in scripts, as well as ones I've never used, but whose man page description makes them seem like good ideas.

extract-args: A very useful script that parses arguments to shell functions. It's like 'getopt' or 'getopts', except with many more features (and many more bugs...). I've found that, even after learning to use getopt(s), I'd need to set up some loop of some kind to extract the parameters to options and whatnot; all that getopt or getopts would do is state if the arguments were well-formed. extract-args creates two global arrays: an associative array for options and their parameters, as well as a linear array for command parameters. The end result is that the boilerplate crap that goes with making a bash script is greatly reduced--down to few lines--for parsing all of a script's arguments.

git-create: Creates a remote git repository. Currently only works for GitHub.

TODO: document structure change; prelude now in BASH_ENV, not explicitly called