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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2011-06-09 21:08:40 +1000 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-06-15 09:19:10 -0500 |
| commit | 53f4e431918fdfd4e2433c387da1c89c697613bf (patch) | |
| tree | 79f3f11e6b782d769db39348b54ac497f62eeb86 /scripts | |
| parent | 4272b37d3d9f112b9f089dafc2e7538c4c24f7b2 (diff) | |
| download | pacman-53f4e431918fdfd4e2433c387da1c89c697613bf.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/library/README | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/library/README b/scripts/library/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1e9c962b --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/library/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +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 $LONG_OPTS "$@" |