grab

Grab

About

• A fetch tool written in POSIX sh and C++

• Meant for use in StratOS (A Arch-based distro made by Linux hobbyists)

• For further info on how to contribute to this project, refer to CONTRIBUTING.md

C++

The shell is too slow for operations to display such a fetch program. Since this program will possibly be run on a user's terminal on startup, speed is crucial. Additionally, optimizing shell scripts almost always leads to unreadable code, which makes it harder for people to contribute. Hence the rewrite in C++ is to be preferred. The shell version is still here to stay consistent to other fetch scripts using shell.

Todo

C++:

• Fetch the info dynamically
• Cache the info for faster execution
• Configuration file
• Code cleanup
• Testing on multiple systems

sh:

• Colored output
• Fetch the info dynamically (most likely borrow the scraping script from an existing fetch program)
• Document the code
• Configuration file
• Optimize the script cause its relatively slow as of now

Contributing

sh:

• Functionalize everything in a format like:

# Description of function
# (paramters, asd=default_value)
function_name() {
    ...
}

• For further info on how to contribute to this project, refer to CONTRIBUTING.md