SYNOPSIS

printOK

[indent]

printFAIL

[indent]

printNA

[indent]

printATTN

[indent]

printWAIT

[indent]

DESCRIPTION

General

is a collection of functions to print standard status messages - those [ OK ] and [FAIL] messages you see during Linux boot process.

The function list:

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.

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

FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS

printOK Bq Fa indent

Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green)

printFAIL Bq Fa indent

Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red)

printNA Bq Fa indent

Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow)

printATTN Bq Fa indent

Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow)

printWAIT Bq Fa indent

Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow)

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

AUTHORS

An Hai Zaar Aq [email protected] An Gil Ran Aq [email protected]