PRINTATTN(3)

💬 messages(3) — the libbash glow-up your terminal deserves

okay bestie, so messages(3) is a libbash library (that's the LOCAL one, section 3, she's untitled but we love her anyway 💅) and she implements a whole set of functions to print standard status messages. no cap.

---

✨ NAME ✨

messages — libbash library that implements a set of functions to print standard status messages 🎀

---

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

printOK     [indent]
printFAIL   [indent]
printNA     [indent]
printATTN   [indent]
printWAIT   [indent]

---

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

💜 General

messages is a collection of functions to print standard status messages — those [ OK ] and [FAIL] messages you literally see during the Linux boot process. it's giving ✨ritual✨

The function list, periodt:

• printOK — Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green) 💚
• printFAIL — Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red) ❤️
• printNA — Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow) 💛
• printATTN — Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow) 💛
• printWAIT — Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow) 💛

Detailed interface description follows, bestie. keep reading 👑

🧚 indent

Column to move to before printing.

Default indent is calculated as TTY_WIDTH-10. If current tty width can not be determined (for example, in case of serial console), it defaults to 80, so default indent is 80-10=10 🧮

lowkey iconic that she just does the math for you. she's the main character fr fr

---

👑 FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS 👑

💚 printOK [indent]

Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green). slay. you ate. 💚

❤️ printFAIL [indent]

Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red). it happens, we move 😭

💛 printNA [indent]

Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow). not applicable bestie, not our problem ✨

💛 printATTN [indent]

Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow). pay attention, this one's talking to you 🙈

💛 printWAIT [indent]

Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow). hold on babe, she's loading 🌈

---

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

Run a program named MyProg, and report it's success or failure:

echo -n 'Running MyProg...'
printWAIT
if MyProg ; then
        printOK
else
        printFAIL
fi

look at that control flow. the drama. the suspense. printWAIT then boom, printOK or printFAIL. cinema. 🍓

---

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

• Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
• Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>

(the two legends who made the boot screen cute, we stan 🎀)

---

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ldbash(1)
• libbash(1)

---

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 💖 this page came from Linux, version UNDATED — so she's timeless, she's ethereal, she's giving forever-girl 🦋⭐ go forth and print your status messages, you absolute icon 💅✨