TextExpander shell-script template

June 16, 2011

In my previous post I mentioned that I have a TextExpander shortcut which creates the basic format for me. I trigger it with ‘/ss’ (an un-creatively shortcut for “shell script”):

Here is an example of what it creates:

#!/bin/bash
#
#   Author: Timothy J. Luoma
#   Email:  luomat at gmail dot com
#   Date:   2011-06-16
#
#   Purpose: 

SOURCE="${HOME}/.source"

if [ -r "${SOURCE}" ]
then
    . "${SOURCE}"
else
    echo "$0: no ${SOURCE} found"
fi




exit 0
# EOF

But the TextExpander shortcut is this:

#!/bin/bash
#
#   Author: Timothy J. Luoma
#   Email:  luomat at gmail dot com
#   Date:   %Y-%m-%d
#
#   Purpose: %fill:name%

SOURCE="${HOME}/.source"

if [ -r "${SOURCE}" ]
then
    . "${SOURCE}"
else
    echo "$0: no ${SOURCE} found"
fi

%|


exit 0
# EOF

Note the place-holder for the date which automatically fills in today’s year-month-day, as well as %fill:name% which prompts me to put in a description of what the script does. Here’s what it looks like when I trigger it:

That reminds me to write a summary for it, which is helpful when I go back later and wonder “Now why did I write this?” It also means that I can fgrep for ‘Purpose: ’ in my ~/bin/ which can help me find the script I’m looking for if I can’t remember what I called it.

The %| tells TextExpander where to put the cursor where I can start writing the actual script. (I used to have it go to the “Purpose” line, but then I realized it was easier to use the ‘fill’ feature so I didn’t have to down-arrow past the dot-source block.)

What’s the point of the .source file? I explained that in my previous post.

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