shlide

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 `` (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:
• 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