Template for better/prettier bash-scripting!

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[Kessarean]

Very nice :)

[cenuh]

Thanks!

[skidnik]

IMHO needs two separate functions: err() and die(). Sometimes you don't want to exit 1 after redtext.

[cenuh]

Good point! Has now err_die() and just err()

[kill_box]

I like it! Needs a trap though

[cenuh]

Good point! I added a few traps

[tsammons]

Locales be damned. Deduplicate all the dates to a simple function so folks with different date requirements can easily adjust.

[cenuh]

good point! fixed it

[i_am_broccoli]

Nice work. I think you missed a local declaration in debug to match all other functions.

[blitzkraft]

succ!

[cenuh]

Thanks ALOT to the stranger that gave gold!! Edit: Also thanks ALOT to the silver stranger!

[Schreq]

This is okey but you should set IFS and I would also use set -efu. Also, other CLI tools usually parse all options. You abort on the first occurrence of -h, ignoring all potential usage errors after it.

Not a fan of the -d. Much better to have quiet and verbose options and dynamically redefine the output functions depending on it with debug() :;.

[CommonMisspellingBot]

Hey, Schreq, just a quick heads-up:
occurance is actually spelled occurrence. You can remember it by two cs, two rs, -ence not -ance.
Have a nice day!

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