app/demo/bulk-ask.sh

Ladder Summary

file The **`bulk-ask.sh`** script reads a list of task descriptions from a given file (ignoring blank lines and comments), and for each line it echoes the task and invokes `zz repo ask <owner/repo> "<task>"`, effectively posting a series of individual “ask” tasks to the specified repository. It tracks and reports the total number of asks posted. The script does not export any functions or classes.

#!/bin/bash

# Stage 6 ("bulk ASK posting"): a shell loop driving the real `zz`

# CLI, one `zz repo ask` call per task -- deliberately not a dedicated

# bulk-post command. `zz repo ask` already does the one-ask case

# correctly, and for a demo narrating "I'm posting a batch of tasks,"

# a sequence of visible, real commands reads better than one opaque

# bulk call hiding what's actually happening.

# Usage: demo/bulk-ask.sh <owner/repo> <tasks-file>

# <tasks-file>: one task description per line. Blank lines and lines

# starting with # are skipped. See demo/mathkit-tasks.txt for an

# example/starting point -- edit it (or point at your own file) with

# the real task list before recording.

set -euo pipefail

repo="${1:?usage: demo/bulk-ask.sh <owner/repo> <tasks-file>}"

tasks_file="${2:?usage: demo/bulk-ask.sh <owner/repo> <tasks-file>}"

if [ ! -f "$tasks_file" ]; then

echo "no such file: $tasks_file" >&2

exit 1

count=0

while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]; do

# trim leading/trailing whitespace

line="${line#"${line%%[![:space:]]*}"}"

line="${line%"${line##*[![:space:]]}"}"

[ -z "$line" ] && continue

[ "${line:0:1}" = "#" ] && continue

echo "-> $line"

zz repo ask "$repo" "$line"

count=$((count + 1))

done < "$tasks_file"

echo "Posted $count ask(s) to $repo's root Lane."