dependencies-alt

Alternate Dependencies Example

Demonstrates how to require your script's user to have at least one of a list of dependencies (commands) installed prior to using your script.

This example was generated with:

$ bashly init
$ bashly add colors
# ... now edit src/bashly.yml to match the example ...
$ bashly generate

---

bashly.yml

name: cli
help: Sample application that requires alternate dependencies
version: 0.1.0

commands:
- name: download
  help: Download something

  # This is the explicit way of defining dependencies.
  # The generated script will be halted (with a friendly error message) if
  # any of these programs are not installed:
  dependencies:
    # Abort with just the default 'missing dependency: git' message if git
    # is not found
    git:

    # Abort with an additional help message if ruby is not found
    ruby: visit $(blue_underlined https://www.ruby-lang.org) to install

    # Abort if both curl and wget are not found, and show an additional help
    # message.
    # Note that the path to the first found dependency will be available to
    # your script in the `deps` associative array.
    http_client:
      command: [curl, wget]
      help: install with $(green sudo apt install curl)

Output

$ ./cli download