A bash script that will create a new file with the given name in the command line argument, save it in a specified directory, and open it in VSCode.

newnote.sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# Script that will start VSCode with a new file saved in a specified directory to edit. 
# Filename of the new file saved will be taken in as an argument
# Directory will be specified within the script 
#

# Location of the directory where the files created by the script should be stored
file_location=${HOME}/Documents/Programming/scratchpad

# VSCode command line executable 
vscode_exec=code

# Function that will print requirements if the user passes in the -help flag as the first argument
function help
{
    echo "Parameters are: "
    echo "[Required]: filename"
}

# Check for '-help' flag
if [ $1 == "-help" ]; then
     help 
	 exit 0
fi 

# Store the filename that the user passed in
file_name=$1 

# Append path to directory with filename with .$RANOM.txt file type to create a full path to the file that will be touched without overwriting any exisiting files
full_file_name=${file_location}/${file_name}.$RANDOM.txt 

# Touch the new file to create it
touch ${full_file_name} 

# Open the new file in VSCode
${vscode_exec} -n ${full_file_name}