SEE YOU...

see-you.sh is a shell script which displays a friendly message in your terminal. It's based on scripts created and shared by Kyra Rehn in July 2014. Here's how she describes them:

Displays a timeless message in your terminal with cosmic color effects

This version adds options for more salutations, an option to disable the cosmic colour effects, and a ZSH plugin to make integration simple.

Usage

./see-you.sh

displays a random message in the terminal.

./see-you.sh [cowboy|cowgirl|cowperson|cowbot|cowpoke|cowhand]

displays a specific message.

Adding a second argument (regardless of value) will prevent colour output:

./see-you.sh [cowboy|cowgirl|cowperson|cowbot|cowpoke|cowhand] [whatever]

To display random output without colour, explicitly specify random as the first argument:

./see-you.sh random no-colour

Oh My Zsh plugin

This repository also includes a plugin for Oh My Zsh. It can probably be used with other Zsh frameworks, but I haven't tried it.

Installation

Clone the repository in to your $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/ directory:

git clone https://github.com/JonathanGuberman/see-you.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM}/plugins/see-you

Then, add see-you to the list of plugins in your .zshrc file to have the message automatically shown when exiting the shell. You may also want to add environment variables as described below to configure the script's behaviour.

Configuration

You can configure the behaviour of the plugin using environment variables, which you can also set in your .zshrc file:

Env variable	Description	Default value	Allowed values
SEE_YOU	Message to be shown	random	cowboy, cowgirl, cowperson, cowbot, cowhand, cowpoke
SEE_YOU_NO_COSMIC	Disable cosmic colouring	Not set	Any value will disable colours
SEE_YOU_SLEEP	How long to pause in seconds after showing message	1	Any positive number, including decimals

Why?!

Years ago I saw Kyra's original shell script posted somewhere. I thought it was fun and added it to my logout script the way she suggested, by adding sh ~/seeyouspacecowboy.sh; sleep 2 to my logout file. It made me smile whenever I'd exit a shell.

Recently I was setting up a new laptop from scratch and I missed it. I went to add it back in, but I didn't want to just put the script somewhere random. It seemed like a natural fit for using Oh My Zsh plugins, since they have a dedicated place to put them, and it can easily be added to the ZSH exit hook.

Then I noticed that Kyra had added "See You Space Cowgirl" version of the script, and that there had been a couple comments asking for other salutations, so I decided to go a little bit overboard.

Adding other salutations

Kyra mentioned that she made the text here and deleted the third row manually. It would be pretty easy to add other options to this script. If you have a request feel free to file an issue or make a pull request.

Future development

To be honest, this is probably as far as this project goes. On the off chance that I decide to take it further, here are some improvements I'd like to make:

• Proper argument parsing to allow non-positional arguments and a proper flag for disabling colour
• Taking a list of salutations as an argument, from which one would be randomly selected
• More colour palettes
  • User-defined colour palettes
  • Additional built-in colour palettes

If you have any ideas, feel free to open an issue or make a pull request.