• cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    8·
    18 hours ago

    perhaps i too will post code on the internet

    here is a shell script i wrote for automating filenames for markdown files (blog posts):

    code 
    #!/bin/sh
set -e

datecmd="date +%Y-%m-%d"

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  printf "Post title: " >&2
  read -r title
else
  title="$1"
fi

file="$($datecmd)_$title.md"

if [ -f "$file" ]; then
  printf "Error: post '$file' already exists.\n" >&2
  exit 1
fi

${EDITOR:-nano} "$file"

    im not sure why i made it since i could just look at what date it is and write it down manually in the file name, but i felt like doing that as a quick hack

    • bestelbus22@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Love this kind of stuff. I have a whole reposity of fish functions that do stuff because I’m too lazy :)

    • timsjel@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Here is my most recent script, not gonna lie, pretty proud of this bad boy. /s

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A001 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A002 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A003 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A004 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A005 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A006 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A007 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

      shjava per/med/xwpp01 A008 conv.txt

      echo ‘yo’

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Only thing I can recommend (as well as for literally any script) is using set -u. Only because it’s awful to debug unset variables and there’s never a use case for using unset variables.