Ready-to-use loading animations in ASCII and UTF-8 for easy integration into your Bash scripts.
Have an idea for a nice-looking animation? Please help expand the collection!
⚠ Important note: do not copy the raw script file from your browser or you will have broken animations, as the non-breaking spaces will be converted into regular spaces.
Instead, use one of the following methods to retrieve the script:
git clone https://github.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animationscurl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animations/main/bash_loading_animations.sh
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animations/main/bash_loading_animations.demowget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animations/main/bash_loading_animations.sh
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animations/main/bash_loading_animations.demoRun the provided script bash_loading_animations.demo to quickly visualise the available animations.
Put these lines at the top of your script:
# Load in the functions and animations
source /path/to/bash_loading_animations.sh
# Run BLA::stop_loading_animation if the script is interrupted
trap BLA::stop_loading_animation SIGINTDon't forget to replace /path/to/bash_loading_animations.sh with the appropriate filepath.
Show a loading animation for the command foo:
BLA::start_loading_animation "${BLA_name_of_the_animation[@]}"
foo
BLA::stop_loading_animationIf foo prints some output in the terminal, you may want to add:
foo 1> /dev/null # hide standard output
# or
foo 2> /dev/null # hide error messages
# or
foo &> /dev/null # hide all outputSome of the animations have been adapted from https://github.com/sindresorhus/cli-spinners.
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