welcome.sh

A nice welcome script for Bash and Zsh

This is a nice little script for your .bashrc or .zshrc that greets you on every launch, with some helpful (and customizable!) information.

My goal with this script is to keep it simple, just a single line that gives useful information when you start a terminal session.

Features:

• Relatively fast
• Works across many distros (update checking support)
• Clean and simple
• Customizable

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Installing:

Via Curl

_Bash:

bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G2-Games/welcome.sh/main/install.sh)"

_Zsh:

zsh -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G2-Games/welcome.sh/main/install.sh)"

Or wget

_Bash:

bash -c "$(wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G2-Games/welcome.sh/main/install.sh -O -)"

_Zsh:

zsh -c "$(wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G2-Games/welcome.sh/main/install.sh -O -)"

It installs to ~/.welcome/welcome.sh, and adds a line to the bottom of ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

Run again to uninstall. Uninstalling will remove it from both Bash and Zsh.

Manual Installation

To use it, download welcome.sh and place it in your home directory. Then add /home/$USER/welcome.sh to your .bashrc.

Updating:

WIP

Currently you can update by uninstalling and reinstalling, but this wipes all settings. I am working on making a better way to do this.

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Configs:

To configure settings, open welcome.sh in your text editor of choice and go to the bottom. There, you'll find a few settings:

#==================SETUP=================#
# Select which parts you want active by  #
# commenting them out. For example, on a #
# desktop, disabling the battery message #
# is a good idea. You can also re-order  #
# them to change how they display!       #
#========================================#

greetings=("Welcome" "Greetings" "Hello" "Hi") # Add your own greetings!
randgreeting="off"  #< Turn the random greetings on (eg. "Hello <user>, Hi <user>")
twelvehour="on"     #< Switch between 12 and 24 hour time (eg. 8:00pm vs 20:00)
rechargenotif="off" #< Notify that you should recharge if below 15%
flatpakupd="off"    #< Check for flatpak updates, this slows startup down A LOT
goodgreeting="on"   #< Display greetings like "Good afternoon," else "It's afternoon"

welcome
greeting
clock
battery
updates
echo # Properly line break at the end

Here, you can re-arrange the modules, and turn off and on flatpak and recharge notifications. I recommend leaving flatpak off as it makes startup incredibly slow.

I'm planning on making this config section a separate file later to make changing settings easier and updating easier.

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TODO:

• Add easier way to install and update
• Fix issues across other distros
• Add new features?