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?
You mean like
touch file && chmod +x file?Wrap it up folks, we’re done here.
You could append the chmod command with && but that’s probably not what you wanted.
Write an alias/function to do it and add to your bashrc.
function nanox() { nano "$1" chmod +x "$1" }This is the way.
You could define a function that takes a parameter, which touches a file with the parameters value, chmods it and then opens it with nano?
create_exec() { touch "$1" chmod +x "$1" nano "$1" }Then you could type
create_exec file.shand it would do the rest for you.You want the install command.
touch file && chmod +x fileis good but this here is the one true command for the purpose.install -m755 /dev/null targetwas the first thing I thought of. I would never use this but it is a single command.Why would you never use it?
Here’s one I have saved in my shell aliases.
nscript() { local name="${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.
