Spinner

begin_spinner¶

Start an animated spinning cursor in the foreground (run in background with &). Stores its PID in $SpinPID so end_spinner can stop it.

Example¶

begin_spinner &
SpinPID="${!}"
some_long_task
end_spinner "$?"

Exit codes¶

• 0: Always (loops indefinitely until killed)

end_spinner¶

Stop the spinner started by begin_spinner and print a status message based on the supplied exit code. Colour-coded if txtGrn/txtRed/txtRst are set.

Arguments¶

• $1 (int): Exit code from the task that was running: 0, 1, 2, 124, or other

Exit codes¶

• 0: Always