Bash Functions You Need To Use

Ever wish you could type this to create a file along with any necessary parent folders?

touch public/views/about.html

Just open up your .bash_profile file and paste in the following function

ptouch() {
  for p in "$@"; do
    _dir="$(dirname -- "$p")"
    [ -d "$_dir" ] || mkdir -p -- "$_dir"
    touch -- "$p"
  done
}

now either reboot your terminal or type source ~/.bash_profile

and from now on you can type

ptouch public/views/about.html

and rejoice.

While we’re add it, add

mcd() { 
  mkdir -p $1
  cd $1
}

so you can mcd myproject, which creates a directory and puts you inside that directory all in one command.

Yay.