bash-tools

A collection of "utility" bash scripts.

bashlogging

Defines several functions for fine grained control of logging information. Writes different types of messages based on LOGLEVEL. The messages are sent to either stdout, stderr, file, or both based on the LOGTYPE parameter. The file output is prepended with date & time -- stdout/stderr aren't, however, they do use coloured versions of the ERROR:, WARNING:, INFO:, and DEBUG: tags.

bashcheck

Does a quick and dirty check of a bash script printing any potentially major problems to stdout, specifically it checks for:

• Assigning values to system variables in an unconstrained way, ie a way that will have side effects on the callers environment.
• Assigning variables or defining functions using Built-in function names or keywords.

checkurl

Check if a web page is accessible. Useful as a utility function for identifying dead links. Exit status is 0 if the web page is accessible. If the page is inaccessible the script prints a warning message before exiting with status 1.

checkPyImport

Starts python and imports the requested package before exiting. A message is printed to standard out and the exit code is set based on success or failure of the import.

git-import-file

Imports a single file from a source repository into a target repository, including its complete commit history. There are a few conditions that must be met for this to work, for example:

• the source and target repositories must be in clean state;
• the target-file must not exist.
• any commits renaming source-file must not have modified its contents.
• git log --follow must be able to trace source-file's commit history back to the original commit.