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