hr – a 30-line script that prints a colored bar across your terminal

by ankurisok 3 months ago

macOS • xterm-256color • zsh 12 views

Small personal utility. When a command produces a lot of output, I often want a visible marker between “before I ran this” and “after” — something I can spot at a glance while scrolling back. hr prints one row of solid color across the full terminal width, with a timestamp on the right and an optional left-aligned message.

red bar + timestamp

add a message

hr started build

8 named colors

hr -c blue running tests

Bash 3.2+ and a terminal that supports ANSI color. No other dependencies. MIT licensed.

Repo: https://github.com/ankurokok/hr

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