Install fonts on linux distros systemwide

install_fonts.sh

#!/bin/env bash

# Installs fonts system wide. Default install directory is /usr/share/fonts/my-installed-fonts.
# All fonts in /usr/share/fonts directory are recursively added by fc-cache, so we can install in custom directory
# Why this?
# Because some font installers like font-manager installs fonts only for current user
# i.e. in ~/.local/share/fonts which some applications like vscode didn't detect.

# Usage
# install-fonts a.ttf b.ttf c.ttf

set -e

YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
GREEN='\033[0;32m'
NOCOLOR='\033[0m'

INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/fonts/my-installed-fonts
FONTS_TO_INSTALL=$@

#echo -e "INFO :::${YELLOW} Creating directory ${INSTALL_DIR}, if not present i.e. with -p option ${NOCOLOR}\n"
sudo mkdir -p $INSTALL_DIR

#echo -e "INFO :::${YELLOW} Moving \"${FONTS_TO_INSTALL}\" to ${INSTALL_DIR} ${NOCOLOR}\n"
sudo cp $FONTS_TO_INSTALL $INSTALL_DIR

#echo -e "INFO :::${YELLOW} Re-evaluating font cache. i.e. fc-cache -fv ${NOCOLOR}\n"
fc-cache -fv

echo -e "${GREEN} Fonts installed. ${NOCOLOR}"