sysfetch VS neofetch

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.

# https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Customizing-Info

# Source: https://github.com/chick2d/neofetch-themes # Configuration made by Chick # See this wiki page for more info: # https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Customizing-Info # I used custom seperators as the older one looked not very properly proportioned # Quote the prin's and unqote the underlines if you want. print_info() { # prin "Eat  , Sleep  , Linux  ." # info underline prin "" prin "Hardware Information" info " " model info " " cpu info "󰟽 " gpu # info " " disk info " " memory info "󰹑 " resolution # info "󱈑 " battery # info underline prin "" prin "Software Information" info " " distro # Just get your distro's logo off nerdfonts.com info " " kernel # info " " de # info " " wm info " " shell # info " " term # info " " term_font # info " " theme # info " " icons info "󰏔 " packages # info "󰅐 " uptime # Backup # info "GPU Driver" gpu_driver # Linux/macOS only # info "CPU Usage" cpu_usage # info "Font" font # info "Song" song # [[ "$player" ]] && prin "Music Player" "$player" # info "Local IP" local_ip # info "Public IP" public_ip #info "Users" users # info "Locale" locale # This only works on glibc systems. prin "" # info cols # prin " " # Padding prin "${cl16}󰐝 \n \n ${cl5}󰐝 \n \n ${cl6}󰐝 \n \n ${cl2}󰐝 \n \n ${cl7}󰐝 \n \n ${cl4}󰐝 \n \n ${cl1}󰐝 \n \n ${cl3}󰐝 \n \n" } # Kernel # Shorten the output of the kernel function. # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --kernel_shorthand # Supports: Everything except *BSDs (except PacBSD and PC-BSD) # # Example: # on: '4.8.9-1-ARCH' # off: 'Linux 4.8.9-1-ARCH' kernel_shorthand="on" # Distro # Shorten the output of the distro function # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'tiny', 'off' # Flag: --distro_shorthand # Supports: Everything except Windows and Haiku distro_shorthand="off" # Show/Hide OS Architecture. # Show 'x86_64', 'x86' and etc in 'Distro:' output. # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --os_arch # # Example: # on: 'Arch Linux x86_64' # off: 'Arch Linux' os_arch="on" # Uptime # Shorten the output of the uptime function # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'tiny', 'off' # Flag: --uptime_shorthand # # Example: # on: '2 days, 10 hours, 3 mins' # tiny: '2d 10h 3m' # off: '2 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes' uptime_shorthand="on" # Memory # Show memory pecentage in output. # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --memory_percent # # Example: # on: '1801MiB / 7881MiB (22%)' # off: '1801MiB / 7881MiB' memory_percent="on" # Packages # Show/Hide Package Manager names. # # Default: 'tiny' # Values: 'on', 'tiny' 'off' # Flag: --package_managers # # Example: # on: '998 (pacman), 8 (flatpak), 4 (snap)' # tiny: '908 (pacman, flatpak, snap)' # off: '908' package_managers="on" # Shell # Show the path to $SHELL # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --shell_path # # Example: # on: '/bin/bash' # off: 'bash' shell_path="off" # Show $SHELL version # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --shell_version # # Example: # on: 'bash 4.4.5' # off: 'bash' shell_version="on" # CPU # CPU speed type # # Default: 'bios_limit' # Values: 'scaling_cur_freq', 'scaling_min_freq', 'scaling_max_freq', 'bios_limit'. # Flag: --speed_type # Supports: Linux with 'cpufreq' # NOTE: Any file in '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq' can be used as a value. speed_type="bios_limit" # CPU speed shorthand # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off'. # Flag: --speed_shorthand # NOTE: This flag is not supported in systems with CPU speed less than 1 GHz # # Example: # on: 'i7-6500U (4) @ 3.1GHz' # off: 'i7-6500U (4) @ 3.100GHz' speed_shorthad="on" # Enable/Disable CPU brand in output. # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --cpu_brand # # Example: # on: 'Intel i7-6500U' # off: 'i7-6500U (4)' cpu_brand="on" # CPU Speed # Hide/Show CPU speed. # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --cp_speed # # Example: # on: 'Intel i7-6500U (4) @ 3.1GHz' # off: 'Intel i7-6500U (4)' cpu_speed="off" # CPU Cores # Display CPU cores in output # # Default: 'logical' # Values: 'logical', 'physical', 'off' # Flag: --cpu_cores # Support: 'physical' doesn't work on BSD. # # Example: # logical: 'Intel i7-6500U (4) @ 3.1GHz' (All virtual cores) # physical: 'Intel i7-6500U (2) @ 3.1GHz' (All physical cores) # off: 'Intel i7-6500U @ 3.1GHz' cpu_cores="logical" # CPU Temperature # Hide/Show CPU temperature. # Note the temperature is added to the regular CPU function. # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'C', 'F', 'off' # Flag: --cpu_temp # Supports: Linux, BSD # NOTE: For FreeBSD and NetBSD-based systems, you'll need to enable # coretemp kernel module. This only supports newer Intel processors. # # Example: # C: 'Intel i7-6500U (4) @ 3.1GHz [27.2°C]' # F: 'Intel i7-6500U (4) @ 3.1GHz [82.0°F]' # off: 'Intel i7-6500U (4) @ 3.1GHz' cpu_temp="off" # GPU # Enable/Disable GPU Brand # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --gpu_brand # # Example: # on: 'AMD HD 7950' # off: 'HD 7950' gpu_brand="on" # Which GPU to display # # Default: 'all' # Values: 'all', 'dedicated', 'integrated' # Flag: --gpu_type # Supports: Linux # # Example: # all: # GPU1: AMD HD 7950 # GPU2: Intel Integrated Graphics # # dedicated: # GPU1: AMD HD 7950 # # integrated: # GPU1: Intel Integrated Graphics gpu_type="all" # Resolution # Display refresh rate next to each monitor # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --refresh_rate # Supports: Doesn't work on Windows. # # Example: # on: '1920x1080 @ 60Hz' # off: '1920x1080' refresh_rate="on" # Gtk Theme / Icons / Font # Shorten output of GTK Theme / Icons / Font # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --gtk_shorthand # # Example: # on: 'Numix, Adwaita' # off: 'Numix [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3]' gtk_shorthand="on" # Enable/Disable gtk2 Theme / Icons / Font # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --gtk2 # # Example: # on: 'Numix [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3]' # off: 'Adwaita [GTK3]' gtk2="on" # Enable/Disable gtk3 Theme / Icons / Font # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --gtk3 # # Example: # on: 'Numix [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3]' # off: 'Numix [GTK2]' gtk3="on" # IP Address # Website to ping for the public IP # # Default: 'http://ident.me' # Values: 'url' # Flag: --ip_host public_ip_host="http://ident.me" # Public IP timeout. # # Default: '2' # Values: 'int' # Flag: --ip_timeout public_ip_timeout=2 # Disk # Which disks to display. # The values can be any /dev/sdXX, mount point or directory. # NOTE: By default we only show the disk info for '/'. # # Default: '/' # Values: '/', '/dev/sdXX', '/path/to/drive'. # Flag: --disk_show # # Example: # disk_show=('/' '/dev/sdb1'): # 'Disk (/): 74G / 118G (66%)' # 'Disk (/mnt/Videos): 823G / 893G (93%)' # # disk_show=('/'): # 'Disk (/): 74G / 118G (66%)' # disk_show=('/') # Disk subtitle. # What to append to the Disk subtitle. # # Default: 'mount' # Values: 'mount', 'name', 'dir' # Flag: --disk_subtitle # # Example: # name: 'Disk (/dev/sda1): 74G / 118G (66%)' # 'Disk (/dev/sdb2): 74G / 118G (66%)' # # mount: 'Disk (/): 74G / 118G (66%)' # 'Disk (/mnt/Local Disk): 74G / 118G (66%)' # 'Disk (/mnt/Videos): 74G / 118G (66%)' # # dir: 'Disk (/): 74G / 118G (66%)' # 'Disk (Local Disk): 74G / 118G (66%)' # 'Disk (Videos): 74G / 118G (66%)' #disk_subtitle="mount" # Song # Manually specify a music player. # # Default: 'auto' # Values: 'auto', 'player-name' # Flag: --music_player # # Available values for 'player-name': # # amarok # audacious # banshee # bluemindo # clementine # cmus # deadbeef # deepin-music # dragon # elisa # exaile # gnome-music # gmusicbrowser # gogglesmm # guayadeque # iTunes # juk # lollypop # mocp # mopidy # mpd # netease-cloud-music # pogo # pragha # qmmp # quodlibet # rhythmbox # sayonara # smplayer # spotify # strawberry # tomahawk # vlc # xmms2d # xnoise # yarock music_player="vlc" # Format to display song information. # # Default: '%artist% - %album% - %title%' # Values: '%artist%', '%album%', '%title%' # Flag: --song_format # # Example: # default: 'Song: Jet - Get Born - Sgt Major' song_format="%artist% - %title%" # Print the Artist, Album and Title on separate lines # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --song_shorthand # # Example: # on: 'Artist: The Fratellis' # 'Album: Costello Music' # 'Song: Chelsea Dagger' # # off: 'Song: The Fratellis - Costello Music - Chelsea Dagger' song_shorthand="off" # 'mpc' arguments (specify a host, password etc). # # Default: '' # Example: mpc_args=(-h HOST -P PASSWORD) mpc_args=() # Text Colors # Text Colors # # Default: 'distro' # Values: 'distro', 'num' 'num' 'num' 'num' 'num' 'num' # Flag: --colors # # Each number represents a different part of the text in # this order: 'title', '@', 'underline', 'subtitle', 'colon', 'info' # # Example: # colors=(distro) - Text is colored based on Distro colors. # colors=(4 6 1 8 8 6) - Text is colored in the order above. colors=(1 1 1 15 4 15) # Text Options # Toggle bold text # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --bold bold="on" # Enable/Disable Underline # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --underline underline_enabled="on" # Underline character # # Default: '-' # Values: 'string' # Flag: --underline_char underline_char="-" # Info Separator # Replace the default separator with the specified string. # # Default: ':' # Flag: --separator # # Example: # separator="->": 'Shell-> bash' # separator=" =": 'WM = dwm' separator="  " # Color Blocks # Color block range # The range of colors to print. # # Default: '0', '15' # Values: 'num' # Flag: --block_range # # Example: # # Display colors 0-7 in the blocks. (8 colors) # neofetch --block_range 0 7 # # Display colors 0-15 in the blocks. (16 colors) # neofetch --block_range 0 15 #block_range=(8 15) block_range=(0 15) # Toggle color blocks # Colors for custom colorblocks #colors #bold="(tput bold)" magenta="\033[1;35m" green="\033[1;32m" white="\033[1;37m" blue="\033[1;34m" red="\033[1;31m" black="\033[1;40;30m" yellow="\033[1;33m" cyan="\033[1;36m" reset="\033[0m" bgyellow="\033[1;43;33m" bgwhite="\033[1;47;37m" cl0="${reset}" cl1="${magenta}" cl2="${green}" cl3="${white}" cl4="${blue}" cl5="${red}" cl6="${yellow}" cl7="${cyan}" cl8="${black}" cl9="${bgyellow}" cl10="${bgwhite}" # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --color_blocks color_blocks="on" # Color block width in spaces # # Default: '3' # Values: 'num' # Flag: --block_width block_width=4 # Color block height in lines # # Default: '1' # Values: 'num' # Flag: --block_height block_height=1 # Progress Bars # Bar characters # # Default: '-', '=' # Values: 'string', 'string' # Flag: --bar_char # # Example: # neofetch --bar_char 'elapsed' 'total' # neofetch --bar_char '-' '=' bar_char_elapsed="-" bar_char_total="=" # Toggle Bar border # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --bar_border bar_border="on" # Progress bar length in spaces # Number of chars long to make the progress bars. # # Default: '15' # Values: 'num' # Flag: --bar_length bar_length=15 # Progress bar colors # When set to distro, uses your distro's logo colors. # # Default: 'distro', 'distro' # Values: 'distro', 'num' # Flag: --bar_colors # # Example: # neofetch --bar_colors 3 4 # neofetch --bar_colors distro 5 bar_color_elapsed="distro" bar_color_total="distro" # Info display # Display a bar with the info. # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'bar', 'infobar', 'barinfo', 'off' # Flags: --cpu_display # --memory_display # --battery_display # --disk_display # # Example: # bar: '[---=======]' # infobar: 'info [---=======]' # barinfo: '[---=======] info' # off: 'info' cpu_display="on" memory_display="on" battery_display="on" disk_display="on" # Backend Settings # Image backend. # # Default: 'ascii' # Values: 'ascii', 'caca', 'chafa', 'jp2a', 'iterm2', 'off', # 'termpix', 'pixterm', 'tycat', 'w3m', 'kitty' # Flag: --backend image_backend="ascii" # Image Source # # Which image or ascii file to display. # # Default: 'auto' # Values: 'auto', 'ascii', 'wallpaper', '/path/to/img', '/path/to/ascii', '/path/to/dir/' # 'command output (neofetch --ascii "$(fortune | cowsay -W 30)")' # Flag: --source # # NOTE: 'auto' will pick the best image source for whatever image backend is used. # In ascii mode, distro ascii art will be used and in an image mode, your # wallpaper will be used. image_source="/home/arch-user/pik.txt" # Ascii Options # Ascii distro # Which distro's ascii art to display. # # Default: 'auto' # Values: 'auto', 'distro_name' # Flag: --ascii_distro # # NOTE: Arch and Ubuntu have 'old' logo variants. # Change this to 'arch_old' or 'ubuntu_old' to use the old logos. # NOTE: Ubuntu has flavor variants. # Change this to 'Lubuntu', 'Xubuntu', 'Ubuntu-GNOME' or 'Ubuntu-Budgie' to use the flavors. # NOTE: Arch, Crux and Gentoo have a smaller logo variant. # Change this to 'arch_small', 'crux_small' or 'gentoo_small' to use the small logos. ascii_distro="auto" # Ascii Colors # # Default: 'distro' # Values: 'distro', 'num' 'num' 'num' 'num' 'num' 'num' # Flag: --ascii_colors # # Example: # ascii_colors=(distro) - Ascii is colored based on Distro colors. # ascii_colors=(4 6 1 8 8 6) - Ascii is colored using these colors. ascii_colors=(1 3 15) # Bold ascii logo # Whether or not to bold the ascii logo. # # Default: 'on' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --ascii_bold ascii_bold="on" # Image Options # Image loop # Setting this to on will make neofetch redraw the image constantly until # Ctrl+C is pressed. This fixes display issues in some terminal emulators. # # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off' # Flag: --loop image_loop="off" # Thumbnail directory # # Default: '~/.cache/thumbnails/neofetch' # Values: 'dir' thumbnail_dir="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-${HOME}/.cache}/thumbnails/neofetch" # Crop mode # # Default: 'normal' # Values: 'normal', 'fit', 'fill' # Flag: --crop_mode # # See this wiki page to learn about the fit and fill options. # https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/What-is-Waifu-Crop%3F crop_mode="normal" # Crop offset # Note: Only affects 'normal' crop mode. # # Default: 'center' # Values: 'northwest', 'north', 'northeast', 'west', 'center' # 'east', 'southwest', 'south', 'southeast' # Flag: --crop_offset crop_offset="center" # Image size # The image is half the terminal width by default. # # Default: 'auto' # Values: 'auto', '00px', '00%', 'none' # Flags: --image_size # --size image_size="auto" # Gap between image and text # # Default: '3' # Values: 'num', '-num' # Flag: --gap gap=2 # Image offsets # Only works with the w3m backend. # # Default: '0' # Values: 'px' # Flags: --xoffset # --yoffset yoffset=0 xoffset=0 # Image background color # Only works with the w3m backend. # # Default: '' # Values: 'color', 'blue' # Flag: --bg_color background_color= # Misc Options # Stdout mode # Turn off all colors and disables image backend (ASCII/Image). # Useful for piping into another command. # Default: 'off' # Values: 'on', 'off' stdout="off"

8. Neofetch

Neofetch Wiki

Homepage: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

for an alternative you could check out neofetch -- https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch -- it's pretty cool.

Well, yes... they're running on non-Windows systems/alternative operating systems. What are you expecting? Plug-and-play? That's not going to happen with non-Native applications. Just like if you were to install (as an example) neofetch onto Windows, you'd have to recompile it's instructions to run on it (sidenote: You can get neofetch to run on Windows... via Windows Subsystems for Linux, but that's off topic).

With neofetch development seemingly stalled since Dec 2021, and notably without support for proper support for ANSI color codes, I took it upon myself to write an incredibly simple script that replaces ANSI escape sequences with the ${c1}-${c6} modifiers that neofetch actually supports.