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<h2>Teeny tiny bash fetch script</h2>
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<p>December 10, 2022</p>
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<h1>Teeny tiny bash fetch script</h1>
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</header><p>This is my attempt at a neofetch, pfetch, whateverfetch style system info utility. My main concern was making something which looked nice, was easily configurable, and as portable as possible (I didn&rsquo;t really try that hard with the portability). I didn&rsquo;t think much about performance; I&rsquo;m personally not a man who stresses too much when a command takes a quarter of a second instead of a tenth. The basic gameplan was to get an array of bash commands which would fetch various bits and bobs, then loop through this array formatting the text with ANSI escape codes. First things first, this was the associative array I came up with:</p>
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<p>This is my attempt at a neofetch, pfetch, whateverfetch style system info utility. My main concern was making something which looked nice, was easily configurable, and as portable as possible (I didn&rsquo;t really try that hard with the portability). I didn&rsquo;t think much about performance; I&rsquo;m personally not a man who stresses too much when a command takes a quarter of a second instead of a tenth. The basic gameplan was to get an array of bash commands which would fetch various bits and bobs, then loop through this array formatting the text with ANSI escape codes. First things first, this was the associative array I came up with:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nb">declare</span> -A <span class="nv">fetch</span><span class="o">=(</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="o">[</span>user<span class="o">]=</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span><span class="nv">$USER</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="o">[</span>host<span class="o">]=</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span><span class="k">$(</span>cat /etc/hostname<span class="k">)</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span>
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</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="k">done</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>This had the happy unintended consequence of allowing you to very easily configure which items you wanted in the fetch by simply commenting out keys from the order array. You can check out the script in its entirety <a href="https://gitlab.com/robbygozzarder/golazo">here</a>. This is a pretty picture of a few variations.</p>
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