Nice Shell

A project with a goal to make your shell experience nicer.

The fundament of the project is a few handy functions from the .sh file

• log - prints a message in blue in stderr (not captured in the result)
• ret - sends a message to stdout, a new line to stderr, and exits successfully
• throw - prints a message in red in stderr and exits with error
• warn - prints a message in yellow with a warning sign to stderr

Those functions should be sourced. Here's a simple line to source the functions for the current shell:

source /dev/stdin <<< "$(curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astorDev/nice-shell/refs/heads/main/.sh)"

And here's what the result of using those functions might look like:

Below you can check the script producing the result:

It's also part of this repository

## Installing the script
source /dev/stdin <<< "$(curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astorDev/nice-shell/refs/heads/main/.sh)"

do_light_work() {
    log "working just a little..."
    ret "some stuff"
}

do_hard_work() {
    log "working hard..."
    log "almost there, working tirelessly..."
    ret "much stuff"

    warn "Don't repeat at home! Oh, no one is listening..."
    throw "fell dead, but no one noticed"
}

do_stupid_work() {
    warn "doing stupid stuff... don't repeat it at home!"
    
    throw "fell dead!"
}

results=$(do_light_work)
echo "results so far: $results"
results+=', '
results+=$(do_hard_work)
echo "results so far: $results"
results+=', '
results+=$(do_stupid_work)
echo "results so far: $results"