Emoji for the shell – use emoji as Environment Variables using the same names that Github, Slack, and many others use. Check the Emoji Cheat Sheet.

Installing

Bash

Drop the emoji file somewhere:

curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heewa/bae/master/emoji_vars.sh' > ~/.emoji_vars.sh

And include it in your ~/.profile (preferably) or ~/.bashrc:

if [ -e ~/.emoji_vars.sh ]; then
    source ~/.emoji_vars.sh
fi

Fish

Drop the emoji file somewhere:

curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heewa/bae/master/emoji_vars.fish' > ~/.emoji_vars.fish

And include it in your fish.config:

if test -f $HOME/.emoji_vars.fish
    source $HOME/.emoji_vars.fish
end

Using

$ echo $E_STARS $E_TELESCOPE $E_MONKEY $E_EAR_OF_RICE
🌠 🔭 🐒 🌾

$ echo $E_FIRE $E_FIRE $E_FIRE $E_FIRE $E_FIRE $E_DOG $E_FIRE $E_FIRE this is fine
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🐶 🔥 🔥 this is fine

$ do-something && echo $E_THUMBSUP || echo $E_THUMBSDOWN
👍

$ git commit -a -m "Fix race condition $E_TADA"
[master 687c204] Fix race condition 🎉
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)