Kickstart BASH

Kickstart BASH PHP Script

INTRODUCTION

Ever wanted to write a quick script to do something for you but then realize you should add some options and documentation for “other” uses?

By starting off with writing down your documentation, you can kick-start your bash script with this little tool.

FEATURES

What will happen you ask?

  • Insert a copyright statement (if requested).
  • You will get a generated script with a help function that prints out your program and can be used as a reference to start your coding on.
  • Parsing of command line options with getopts (advanced).
  • Basic initialization of variables for each option, depending on whether the option takes arguments or not.
  • Output to a file (save as) or output to html for reviewing.

DEVELOPMENT

You can find more information on the progress of the script in this blog. Just check out the proper category.

ICON

I finished up a Icon for ‘Kickstart BASH‘. Here are they:

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SOURCE

For those who want to implement something alike for themselves, you can find the source on the google code project page here. I’m hosting this on my home box (until I find proper hosting, no not sf.net, it’s a bit slow from here for my taste), so it’s possible the page is unreachable, slow or a combination of both. In that case, just try again tomorrow.