sysfetch VS awk-hack-the-planet

My first GitHub commit ever and first time writing a BASH script – Nov 19, 2021: https://github.com/wick3dr0se/sysfetch/commit/4190caeb6fb1f14eedffc9ec34b4dc0cf637b160

A system information fetch utility I wrote as my first project, somehow most popular of anything I've wrote — https://github.com/wick3dr0se/sysfetch

If you'd like a refrence, you should checkout my fetch on first commit and see where it's at now. It's gradually become more performant and full of hardware/software information. I don't work on it much anymore but I'll rewrite it once I get bored of other projects. https://github.com/wick3dr0se/sysfetch

Web development lead me to Linux where I got into scripting. It wasn't a week into learning BASH that I started making sysfetch. I've made many more useful utilities for Linux (mostly for personal use). Most recently(last week) I started making a BASH framework to extend BASH and make it easier to use. I ran into several things BASH can't do pretty quickly. Now I am learning C and working on an expression evaluation algorithim. I plan to pull C into my BASH framework, making much more possible.

I do btw!! I wrote a Neofetch alternativethat prints btw versioning on Arch systems too lol

I don't document many projects because they are for my usage. prompt.sh is well documented as well as bashin and of course sysfetch. Also Mac isn't suck on BASHv3 it can be updated. I hear that a lot but I've already had contributors prove that wrong. If you look at sysfetch it was all external commands on commit 1. Also external commands such as awk, sed, grep have absolutely nothing to do with BASH. Those are command usable from and script language. BASH has beautiful bashisms that can do a ton of things. Sysfetch was not usable from WSL, Mac or BSD before the usage of builtins. At one point it was usable from all 3 but I only care about Linux. Contributors can handle other operating systems again if they desire. I never plan to support proprietary bits anyway. It works on BSD already. Another thing to note is many operating systems have different flags for external commands like awk or sed and as a result do different things

There is several other useful scripts in that repository. I apologize for not having documentation. I do have a neofetch-like alternative called sysfetch, and a BASH framework I recently started. I ran into some things I couldn't achieve in BASH. So I'm going to work on a BASH framework in C next.

Disclaimer: self promotion

If you're looking to get into Awk, and you learn well from a lecture style, I put together a talk for Linux Fest Northwest some years ago and recorded it for Youtube: https://youtu.be/E5aQxIdjT0M

Re awk (which equally has its r/awk), the combination of presentation, exercise and GitHub repo of training data by Benjamin Porter is a nice resource, too.

For people that know Ruby, if you haven't explored Ruby's CLI abilities, you definitely, definitely should. When I was building my (free and open source) awk course[1] I fell in love with awk. When I later found out that Ruby has some of the same features, it changed my life: I

https://robm.me.uk/2013/11/ruby-enp/

https://benoithamelin.tumblr.com/ruby1line/

[1]: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet

Awk: Hack the Planet It has a youtube vid and problems to work through.

Kind of a shameless plug, but you mentioned wanting to get better at Awk. I had that same desire and created a small course based on what I learned. The course got great feedback.

There is a video presentation, and a set of "challenges" you can use to incrementally get more complex with awk, starting from super simple.

The challenges repo is on github here: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet

If you want to watch the videos, there are links in the github repo but for convenience:

Presentation video: https://youtu.be/43BNFcOdBlY

My solutions to exercises video: https://youtu.be/4UGLsRYDfo8