Event-driven Shell

Motivation

Yes, we have several other ways of chaining actions using native shell operators. But my main issues with those are:

• They would rely in a single shell, and I'd love to keep my work separated by context;
• Depending on how many actions you are chaining or triggering, it can become not intuitive and hard to write and maintain.

Usage

• receive: Will wait until the given command is received and then it exits;
• emit: Will notify all listeners for that specific command.

$ receive ok && echo 'OK' # Will wait for 'ok' to be emmited

$ emit ok # Will emit ok and release the other command, causing `echo` to be run

Demo

Installation

You can install emit and receive scripts on /usr/local/bin by running:

$ make install