Mow The Lawn

A portable, and silly, mowing-the-lawn animation spinner for bash

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Getting Started
• Script Options

Overview

Getting Started

1. Copy paste the MowTheLawn.pm into a script

2. Make the script executable

   chmod +x NameOfFile.pm
   

3. Run that bad boy!

   perl NameOfFile.pm --loop-without-pid

   or as the animation for a 'long running process'

   sleep 5 & NameOfFile.pm

Script Options

key	type	description	required	example
--mower	string	The text used to create the mower	optional	--mower '`.==.'
--mower-color	string	The color codes for the mower	optional	--mower-color '38;5;106'
--grass	string	The text used to create the grass. One char limit	optional	--grass ','
--lawn-color	string	The color codes for the grass	optional	--lawn-color '38;5;106'
--lawn-length	Integer	The number of blades of grass	optional	--lawn-length 40
--speed	Integer	The speed (sleep time), between animation frames. Shorter is faster	optional	--speed 100
--pid	Integer	The parent process pid (used to explicitly pass a parent process id)	optional	--pid PID_HERE
--loop-without-pid	Boolean	Forces the animation to run continuosly, without parent process pid	optional	--loop-without-pid