alexander-mart / touch-x

A small command to create a new bash script file and give it executable permission (touch & add bash shebang & chmod +x)

✍️ touch-x

One command to create a new script file and give it executable permission (touch & add bash shebang & chmod +x)

Usage

What does it do

1. Create new file: touch <filename>
2. Add shebang: echo "#!/bin/bash" > <filename>
3. Make it file executable: chmod +x <filename>

How to use

$ touch-x <filename>

Installation

Install with basher

$ basher install alexander-mart/touch-x

Install with curl

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexander-mart/touch-x/main/bin/touch-x | bash -s install

Install with wget

wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexander-mart/touch-x/main/bin/touch-x | bash -s install

Unix philosophy

Make each program do one thing well.

To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

-- Douglas McIlroy

See more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

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TODO

• check if file exist then exit
• add bash shebang by default
• add any shebang from library (sh, python3, etc...) with not requried parameter -s|--shebang=<shebang>
  • Shebang snippets list
• Make Linux/Unix Script Portable With #!/usr/bin/env As a Shebang
• awesome package manager support: ls -s ./bin/touch-x ./touch-x

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