#learnshell

Doing repetitive work is unpleasant. Why shall I execute some code to setup my workspace? I shall shell it

What I mean by shell it is to make shell script for automating my task.

As stated in wikipedia, a shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the Unix shell, a command line interpreter1. For example, to start my laravel application I need to:

Go to Desktop/laravel

Execute php artisan serve from terminal

What I want to achieve:

Execute one file to start laravel server

Since I want to start my laravel project by executing one file from my desktop, I will create a file named init.sh in my desktop. *.sh is file extension for shell script.

My desktop now contains 2 things:

init.sh

laravel

Inside init.sh, I put some codes to start laravel server:

#Get current directory of this file #and `cd` to current directory CURRENT_DIR=$(dirname $0) cd $CURRENT_DIR #Now since my current directory is at same level #as my laravel directory, to start laravel server I can do: php laravel/artisan serve

Of course, I need to make that init.sh file executable. I'll just type this code in terminal:

chmod +x /Users/Mac/Desktop/init.sh

All settled :D. Now, to start laravel server I just need to click my init.sh file and open with terminal.

Anyway, how to install laravel? -- Just check on my related posts below :)

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