My first longish Bash script!
Hello friends! I have just written my first longish Bash script, and it will be very useful in the future. This script uses a series of menus to install and (partially) configure a GUI for Arch Linux after a fresh install. I have yet to test it, as I imagine running a script that fiddles with Xorg on an already set-up computer may not be the best idea, however when I next install Arch on a machine I will test it.
The script has the following categories:
- Desktop Environment / Window Manager, containing 5 programs.
- Applications, containing 14 submenus, and a total of 47 programs.
- Games, containing 9 programs.
- Utilities, containing 9 submenus and a total of 24 programs.
If course, I will never have all of the programs installed at once, as I have several different options for each category - for example, why would I want three display managers installed? Anyway, this script will be most useful when I next need to install Arch somewhere. When I do so and fix all the bugs in this, I may post it here for you all to benefit from it.
Anyway, to give you an idea of what I mean by "longish", this script has 32 functions, 1,177 lines, and 17,976 characters. Not bad for someone who has only ever written one or two line scripts before.
