Creating files using a mouse on Visual Code seems like a lot of work so I mostly use UNIX commands; mkdir to make directories and touch to make files.
But the touch command only works when the file directory(s) (destination) exist(s).
So we will create a bash-alias to create a file and create the directory(s) from the path if they do not exist.
For instance:
[command] src/components/App.ts
# should create
- src/
|
-- components/
|
-- App.ts
- create a shell script and paste this code into it:
#!/bin/bash
function t() {
regex="([^/]+\/)"
f=$1
temp="./"
while [[ $f =~ $regex ]]; do
name="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
temp=$temp$name
mkdir $temp -p
f=${f#*"${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"}
done
touch $temp$f
}
- enable running commands from the file by adding it to bash aliases using this command below:
source ./path/to/your_bash_alias_file
# mine, for instance
source /temp/scripts/my_bash_alias.sh
- Now, we can make use of
tto created files and automatically create the paths to the file even if they do not exist:
t src/components/App.js
Conclusion
The alias we created above is temporal only for testing the script out. To create an alias permanently add the alias to your .bashrc file.
And I also published an npm package to make use of the t command. by installing it globally with
npm install-g touch-alias.
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