Shlide: Slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash

a slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash

Features

• All slides are plain-text files.
• Vim like navigation.
• Text color and style formatting.
• Pure bash.

Requirements

• bash 4+

Usage

Create a directory for your slides. Name each slide starting with a number and a hyphen, like so:

$ mkdir deck $ touch deck/1-first-slide.txt $ touch deck/2-another.txt # so on

Note: Make sure to prefix the first 9 slides with a 0 (01-foo.txt, 02-bar.txt ...), if you have more than 10 slides.

Finally, run:

$ shlide deck/

Controls

• Next slide: j, n, ;, space, enter
• Previous slide: k, p, ,, backspace
• Jump to first slide: 0
• Jump to last slide: G
• Reload: r
• Quit: q

Formatting

Slide content can be formatted like so:

Welcome to ${GRN}shlide${RST}. ${STR}Here${RST} are a few bullet points: - first point - second point * ${ITA}sub point${RST} * ${BLD}another${RST} sub point

Note: Make sure to ${RST} (reset) at the end.

A full list of formatting options are below:

Colors

Key Effect

BLK	black
RED	red
GRN	green
YLW	yellow
BLU	blue
PUR	purple
CYN	cyan
RST	reset

Styles

Key Effect

BLD	bold
DIM	dim
ITA	italics
UND	underline
FLS	flashing
REV	reverse
INV	invert
STR	strikethrough

Note that for self-hosted knots, clone URLs may be different based on your setup.