lk-0.1.3 is not a library.

lk

A CLI frontend for your bash scripts.

Parses scripts and pretty prints the functions it finds. Similar to run_lib but rustier, and to runsh but better.

Say you have a script called script.sh that looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This function is very clever and awesome and does a lot of neat stuff.
# And here is some more detailed description about this funciton. Isn't it great?
some_function() {
    echo "hello world from a script"
    echo "foobar"
    sleep 1
    echo "ending function now"
}

# More functions
yet_more_functions() {
    echo "hello from another function"
}

You can access it by executing lk, and it'll find the script and should you what functions are available. Then you can run something like this to execute the function:

lk script.sh some_function

Why "lk"

This is a tool that I use a lot, and "lk" is short and ergonomic. As long as you're reasting on the home keys.

Installation

From the crate:

cargo install lk

Update

cargo install --force lk

Use

Just execute lk and follow the instructions.

File headers

lk will extract comments in the file header, if it finds any, and display them alongside all your runnable functions. It relies on these comments following the form in the Google Shell Style Guide, i.e. like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Some comments.
# And some more.

Why not run_lib?

I already wrote this in bash and called it run_lib. There are a few reasons why this might be better. Here are some considerations:

A Rust executable is easier to distribute via cargo. It's easier for people to update their version.
Integration with a script is more or less the same.
The processing is much easier in Rust than it is in bash, i.e. finding and displaying multi-line comments.
Rust so hot right now.

Finding bash files

Testing for binaries

We don't want binaries because we won't be reading any functions from them.

For testing I took the smallest binary from my /usr/bin and copied it into ./tests/

TODO

Test for bash files. At the moment it will attemp to display any executable text file.
Add syntax to allow functions to be ignored, e.g. an _ prefix.
Don't return a non-0 exit code when exploring scripts, i.e. running without valid script and function arguments. This is a hangup from runsh, where it used non-0 exit codes to run the scripts.

lk 0.1.3

lk