Tools

Terminal Tools

Bash – Bash user input, loading, parsing, linting
Console – Console tools for size, title, outputting links
Cursor – Tools to moving the cursor around the terminal
Decorate – Decorating text with colors and styles, color schemes, and decorate extensions
Decoration Tools – Text decoration tools like bars, boxes, big text

Application – Remember your application home directory upon login
Approve – Interactively load bash code (with permission)
Binaries (direct)
Completion – Add completions for Zesk Build
Dump – Dump the environment, files, binary data, or stack information easily and securely.
Developer – Tools for your developer.sh
- MANPATH MANPATH manipulation
- PATH – PATH manipulation
- Prompt – Customize your bash prompt easily, adding project customization and extensible prompt tools.
Interactive – Interactivity tools for user confirmation, menus, message display
Linting – Clean and check your Bash code. commands.
Readline – Edit readline configuration

Argument – EXPERIMENTAL. Arguments specified using comments.
Character – Character manipulation tools
Date – Date validation, math, and "now"-related date generation
Deprecated – Tools to help you upgrade deprecated code.
Floating Point – Simple floating point number manipulation
List Utilities – Text-based list manipulation with a separator character
Map – Simple token replacement using environment files or variables
Quote – Text quoting tools
Text – Text manipulation tools
Type – Type testing and tools
URL – URL parsing and tools
Usage – Self-documenting functions make life easier.
Validate – Validate any input type with a suite of type validations, extensible.
Sugar Core and Sugar – Syntactic sugar makes code easier to read, debug, and understand.

Directory – Directory manipulation tools
Diff – File differencing tools.
Environment – Anything you could need to manipulate, load, modify, or generate environment files.
File – File attributes accessors, link tools
Group – User group utilities (also User)
Fingerprint – Fingerprint your code
Log – Log rotation
Network – Basic networking information, host name
CPU – CPU count and load average
Services – System services database (/etc/services)
Process – Process tools
Timing – Millisecond timing support across operating systems
User – User database tools (also Group)
Watch – Watch files or directories and take actions

Environment – Anything you could need to manipulate, load, modify, or generate environment files.
jUnit – Generate junit.xml output for testing (EXPERIMENTAL)
JSON – Access and cleaning of JSON
Markdown – Markdown tools
tar – Tar platform neutral calls
URL – URL parsing and tools
XML – XML generation tools
mdoc – mdoc generation tools (PLANNED)

Build Application Tools – Access to bin/env and related cache directories, installation of the installer and installer tools.
Deploy – Application deployment tools for a local environment
Deployment – Application deployment tools for remote
Documentation – Bash documentation automatically and beautifully
Hook API – Application hooks let you change behavior across applications.
Hooks – List of available or known hooks
Identical – A system to keep your code and source in perfect harmony
Installation – Install other software like aws or python using package managers or custom techniques.
Utilities – Some handy utilities
Version – Release version management for your application
Web – Web tools

Wrappers for these are in package tools.

We have added platform-generic installation names (see packageGroupInstall).

The tools.sh shell is the only include you need in your scripts:

# shellcheck source=/dev/null
source "${BASH_SOURCE[0]%/*}/../bin/build/tools.sh"

(see bin/build/identical/__tools.sh for an error-reporting loader)

Once included, all functions here are available for use.