span

<span> for your terminal

Tired of the boring white on black output of your terminal? Need a little more emphasis? Or maybe display some quotes that make you smile or inspired in your terminal? (We all know that a quote is not a quote if it's not in italics)

Well, now you can format the output of your commands with span, see how bellow:

NOTE: Some terminals may not support some or all of the functionally in this script.

Setup

$ curl https://raw.github.com/LuRsT/span/master/span > ~/bin/span
(Examine ~/bin/span)
$ chmod +x ~/bin/span

Note: You should have ~/bin in your $PATH for this to work.

How to use it?

$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lurst users  574 Feb 13 08:02 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lurst users 2045 Feb 13 07:58 span

$ ls -l | span -b # Now the ouput is in bold
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lurst users  574 Feb 13 08:02 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lurst users 2045 Feb 13 07:58 span

$ ls -l | span -c blue # Now the ouput is blue
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lurst users  574 Feb 13 08:02 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lurst users 2045 Feb 13 07:58 span

$ ls -l | span -c 11 # Now the ouput is yellow-orangeish
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lurst users  574 Feb 13 08:02 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lurst users 2045 Feb 13 07:58 span

$ ls -l | span -i # Now the ouput is in italics
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 lurst users  574 Feb 13 08:02 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lurst users 2045 Feb 13 07:58 span

That's it, no requirements, just pure old bash, tput and getopts, check the source, it's free.

TODO:

* [ ] Add more functionality
* [ ] Make code more consistent (bold uses tput, italics doenst)
* [ ] Add to homebrew

Acknowledgments

Idea got while discussing the use of colours in hr here: LuRsT/hr#7

So, thank you!

* [donebizkit](https://github.com/donebizkit)
* [cbanu](https://github.com/cbanu)

Note: I will not add every single contributor to this list, they are hardcoded here because the repo appeared only after the discussion.