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Itamar S
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If you spend a lot of time creating new shell scripts then it can be very useful to make them executable by default. To do this in Vim add the following lines to the end of your ~/.vimrc file - creating it if necessary:
This code will automatically change the file to executable if the first line contains both "#!" and "/bin/".
Once you add #!/bin/sh (for example) to the start of a file and save it, the file will be immediately executable.
" " automatically give executable permissions if file begins with #! and contains " '/bin/' in the path " au BufWritePost * if getline(1) =~ "^#!" | if getline(1) =~ "/bin/" | silent !chmod a+x <afile> | endif | endif
This code will automatically change the file to executable if the first line contains both "#!" and "/bin/".
Once you add #!/bin/sh (for example) to the start of a file and save it, the file will be immediately executable.
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Itamar S#1
For some reason the shell interperts everything after the !, so I get from bash "endif: command not found". Any ideas?
Posted 2009-07-15 10:50:13
troyHad the same problem as Itamar (vim 7).
Fixed it by adding "execute" and quoting the command. Like this,
au BufWritePost * if getline(1) =~ "^#!" | if getline(1) =~ "/bin/" | silent execute "!chmod a+x <afile>" | endif | endif
that did it for me.
Fixed it by adding "execute" and quoting the command. Like this,
au BufWritePost * if getline(1) =~ "^#!" | if getline(1) =~ "/bin/" | silent execute "!chmod a+x <afile>" | endif | endif
that did it for me.
Posted 2009-10-28 08:50:04
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Posted 2010-07-15 22:51:43