Shell Script BBS: The Stateless KISS BBS that nobody actually wanted, written in SHELL SCRIPT!
(depends on GNU coreutils and bash)
Command Set:
bbs new: add new article
bbs edit: edit a existing article (by id)
bbs search: search through all article
bbs del: delete a existing article
bbs list: lists recent article(s)
Article standard format:
Line | Text
-----+----------------------------------
1 | Example Title of Article 1
2 | Separator symbols (arbitrary)
3 | >> 1145141919.810114514
4 | Actual Contents follows:
5 | End of content
line 1: title of the article
line 2: arbitrary symbols as separator
line 3: optional, ID of the article to reply to
line 4: Actual body of article
line 5: arbitrary footer / signature, etc
Command options:
Global options:
-d: BBS data directory
-V: Displays version and quit
-v: Verbose
Structure of BBS data directory:
/ -> Root of BBS data directory
+- wall -> Global announcements
+- tech -> arbitrary topic name
| +- 1653669309.789408313 -> Article filename is UNIX epoch in 9-digit precision, enough to be a unique identifier
Behavior notes:
* Unix epoch time shall indicate the publish time of the article (initial publishing), the time of last modification is indicated by file mtime