LetsEat.sh

letsEat.sh is a simple bash script that suggests food ideas based on pre-defined meal lists. You can use it to get a random suggestion for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or even for the entire day. The meal suggestions are stored in plain text files, one for each meal, inside a lists/ directory.

Features

• Interactive mode: Choose a meal interactively from a menu.
• Argument-based mode: Get meal suggestions directly by passing specific options (e.g., -breakfast, -lunch).
• Randomized suggestions: Each time the script runs, it selects a random food idea from the corresponding list.
• Supports multiple meals: Can suggest food for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or all meals in one go.

Prerequisites

• Bash or ZSH (Others may work, but the script was tested on these two)
• Whiptail for interactive mode (included by default on many Linux distributions)

Usage

1. Look over the Meal Lists

Navigate into the lists/ directory look over the meal lists, remove or add suggestions as needed. Each file should contain one food item per line.

lists/
├── breakfast.list
├── lunch.list
└── dinner.list

2. Run the Script

Interactive Mode

Run letsEat.sh without any arguments to enter interactive mode and choose a meal:

./letsEat.sh

Argument-Based Mode

Alternatively, pass an argument to get a meal suggestion directly:

./letsEat.sh -breakfast

Available arguments:

• -breakfast: Get a breakfast suggestion.
• -lunch: Get a lunch suggestion.
• -dinner: Get a dinner suggestion.
• -all: Get suggestions for all meals in one go.