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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2011-06-09 21:08:40 +1000
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-06-15 09:19:10 -0500
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scripts/library: add README file
Add a README file to briefly document the code snippets in the scripts library folder. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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+This folder contains code snippets that can be reused by multiple
+scripts. A brief description of each file follows.
+
+output_format.sh:
+Provides basic output formatting functions with levels 'msg', 'msg2',
+'warning' and 'error'. The 'msg' amd 'msg2' functions print to stdout
+and can be silenced by defining 'QUIET'. The 'warning' and 'error'
+functions print to stderr with the appropriate prefix added to the
+message.
+
+parse_options.sh:
+A getopt replacement to avoids portability issues, in particular the
+lack of long option name support in the default getopt provided by some
+platforms.
+Usage: parse_option $SHORT_OPTS $LONG_OPTS "$@"