SYNOPSIS

Display a colorized line of text

USAGE

say [options] [tokens]

OPTIONS

--help    | -h      display this help text
--version | -v      display version information
            -n      do not output a newline
            -e      enable string escapes
            -E      disable string escapes (default)

COMMAND TOKENS

Colors are controlled with the following command tokens:

Clear
Reset
Bold
Dim
Italic
Underline
Blink
Invert
Hidden
Default

Black
Blue
Cyan
Green
Magenta
Red
White
Yellow

Bold_Black
Bold_Blue
Bold_Cyan
Bold_Green
Bold_Magenta
Bold_Red
Bold_White
Bold_Yellow

On_Black
On_Blue
On_Cyan
On_Green
On_Magenta
On_Red
On_White
On_Yellow

On_Bold_Black
On_Bold_Blue
On_Bold_Cyan
On_Bold_Green
On_Bold_Magenta
On_Bold_Red
On_Bold_White
On_Bold_Yellow

# 256 colors
Ansi_XXX
On_Ansi_XXX

INSTALLATION

curl -o $HOME/bin/say https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sysread/bash-say/master/say && chmod +x $HOME/bin/say

USING AS A LIBRARY

If you import say using source, it will define the function say for use in your own scripts. When used as a function, -n, -e, and -E options' equivalents are controlled by variables. The defaults are shown in the example:

SAY_NEWLINE=1   # output a newline at the end of all function arguments
SAY_ESCAPES=0   # allow escape codes in input strings (e.g. "\n")

source "./say"

say "Hello, " Green $USER

AUTHOR

Jeff Ober sysread@fastmail.fm

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2020 Jeff Ober

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.