I am tired of creating a file with nano, saving it and then making it executable. Is there a command that makes it in one step?

  • sneakyninjapants
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    8 months ago

    Here’s one I have saved in my shell aliases.

    nscript() {
    local name="${1:-nscript-$(printf '%s' $(echo "$RANDOM" | md5sum) | cut -c 1-10)}"
    echo -e "#!/usr/bin/env bash\n#set -Eeuxo pipefail\nset -e" > ./"$name".sh && chmod +x ./"$name".sh && hx ./"$name".sh
}
alias nsh='nscript'

    Admittedly much more complicated than necessary, but it’s pretty full featured. first line constructs a filename for the new script from a generated 10 character random hash and prepends “nscript” and a user provided name.

    The second line writes out the shebang and a few oft used bash flags, makes the file executable and opens in in my editor (Helix in my case).

    The third line is just a shortened alias for the function.