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Useful bash functions
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| # Exit script if uninitialised variable is used: | |
| set -o nounset | |
| # Print the line number of the caller, the contents of the line, and exit with code 1 | |
| err_panic() { | |
| local msg="$1" | |
| local line_num="${BASH_LINENO[0]}" | |
| local source_file="${BASH_SOURCE[1]}" | |
| local line_content=$(sed -n "${line_num}p" "$source_file" | sed 's/^[ \t]*//') | |
| local red=$(tput setaf 1) | |
| local bold=$(tput bold) | |
| local reset=$(tput sgr0) | |
| echo "${bold}${red}--- ERROR ---${reset}" >&2 | |
| echo "${bold}${msg:-"Runtime Error"}${reset}" >&2 | |
| echo "${bold}[$source_file:$line_num]${reset}" >&2 | |
| echo "${bold} ╰─${reset} $line_content" >&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| } |
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