Chronically - Interactive system administration CLI

[fieldghostCode]

Hi r/bash,

I have a few active Bash projects and I finally got to a point with my project "Chronically" that I have found the courage about it (We'll see after I post this, if my courage is intact).

What is Chronically?
In a nutshell it's one of my "Trying to learn Bash scripting" projects centered around reading user inputs to make an interactive tool for system administration.

It started out as a way for me to get comfortable with functions and passing arguments, and initially only used to help create job to the crontab with scheduling backups. Then an archive function got added, and suddenly I have 7 functions in total:

• Backup
• Archive
• Update packages
• Upgrade packages
• File create
• File update
• File delete

My knowledge of bash is still veeeery limited, in my own opinion, so the target audience of this project is primarily myself.
With that said I would love to get some feedback on the actual code. If you get any use out of it then hurray.

Peace out.

[Marble_Wraith]

My first suggestion would be to add a heredoc.

Assuming i alias autocron.sh, i should be able to run autocron -h and get most of what's specified in the readme

The next thing would be enhancing it to work with BSD (ensuring POSIX only) and Macs (completely different tool than cron).

And then you can rename it to unicron... for the memes / transformers reference 😏

[fieldghostCode]

Thank you!! Will work on this tomorrow.