jd-apprentice / sh-to-bin-boilerplate

Create your binary's from shell scripts with shc 🔢

SH TO BIN Boilerplpate 📦

This repository is a boilerplate on how create your own binaries from shell scripts. Using shc, you can compile your shell scripts into binaries.

Logo from http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=ANSI%20Regular&t=Sample%20App

Requirements 📋

• shc
• bash

Build 📦

There is a makefile rule to build the binary.

make

Execute 🔢

There is a makefile rule to execute the binary.

make execute

Once complete you can move the binary to /usr/local/bin to make it available system wide.

sudo mv build/sample_app /usr/local/bin

Explanation on how add funcionality ➕

You can write functions with bash or write node/python scripts and call them from the main script.

To understand how to make a python or node script callable from the main script, you can check the weather and dolar functions.

Also read from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29 to understand how to make a script executable.

To understand how the select works, you can read from https://linuxize.com/post/bash-select/

PS3='Select an option: ' 

# Add more options here
options=("Print message" "Weather" "Dolar" "Exit")

# Add your functions here
select opt in "${options[@]}"
do
    case $opt in
        "Print message")
            first
            break
            ;;
        "Weather")
            weather
            break
            ;;
        "Dolar")
            dolar
            break
            ;;
        "Exit")
            stop_app
            break
            ;;
        *) echo -e "Invalid option";;
    esac
done