how to create a file and make it executable in one command?
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?
Llituro, 
touch file && chmod +x file
eruchitanda, 
Use
&&to use multiple commands one after the other, don’t use;.
eruchitanda,
&&means execute if the command before ended successfully
||means execute if the commnad before failed
;just means execute the command - no matter if succeeded or failed
ArcaneSlime, My dude, thanks for this. I’ve been using && for a long time now but never knew the rest, I’m still pretty new to linux comparatively.
NegativeLookBehind, 
You want the install command.
At least, I think this will do it. I haven’t used it in a while.
kureta,
touch file && chmod +x fileis good but this here is the one true command for the purpose.
2xsaiko, 
install -m755 /dev/null targetwas the first thing I thought of. I would never use this but it is a single command.
NegativeLookBehind, Why would you never use it?
2xsaiko, I’m going to write (at least part of) the script first anyway, and then I can just use chmod +x after the file is saved which is shorter.
sneakyninjapants, Here’s one I have saved in my shell aliases.
<span style="color:#323232;">nscript() { </span><span style="color:#323232;"> local name="${1:-nscript-$(printf '%s' $(echo "$RANDOM" | md5sum) | cut -c 1-10)}" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> echo -e "#!/usr/bin/env bashn#set -Eeuxo pipefailnset -e" > ./"$name".sh && chmod +x ./"$name".sh && hx ./"$name".sh </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span><span style="color:#323232;">alias nsh='nscript' </span>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.
kayaven, 
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?
<span style="color:#323232;">create_exec() { </span><span style="color:#323232;"> touch "$1" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> chmod +x "$1" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> nano "$1" </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span>Then you could type
create_exec file.shand it would do the rest for you.
CameronDev, Write an alias/function to do it and add to your bashrc.
<span style="color:#323232;">function nanox() { </span><span style="color:#323232;"> nano "$1" </span><span style="color:#323232;"> chmod +x "$1" </span><span style="color:#323232;">} </span>
psmgx, This is the way.
cyborganism, You mean like
touch file && chmod +x file?
MrAlternateTape, Wrap it up folks, we’re done here.
bjoern_tantau, 
You could append the chmod command with && but that’s probably not what you wanted.
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