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#!/bin/sh | |
# Create and switch to a temporary directory writeable by current user. See: | |
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/subshells.html | |
cd "$(mktemp -d)" | |
# Use a BASH "here document" to create an updater shell script file. | |
# See: | |
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html | |
# > outputs stdout to a file, overwriting any pre-existing file | |
# << takes input, directly from the script itself, till the second '_EOF_SCRIPT' marker, as stdin | |
# the cat command hooks these 2 streams up (stdin and stdout) | |
###### create update_winetricks START ######## | |
cat > update_winetricks <<_EOF_SCRIPT | |
#!/bin/sh | |
# Create and switch to a temporary directory writeable by current user. See: | |
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/subshells.html | |
cd "$(mktemp -d)" | |
# Download the latest winetricks script (master="latest version") from Github. | |
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks | |
# Mark the winetricks script (we've just downloaded) as executable. See: | |
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/x9543.htm | |
chmod +x winetricks | |
# Move the winetricks script to a location which will be in the standard user PATH. See: | |
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html | |
sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin | |
# Download the latest winetricks BASH completion script (master="latest version") from Github. | |
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.bash-completion | |
# Move the winetricks BASH completion script to a standard location for BASH completion modules. See: | |
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/tabexpansion.html | |
sudo mv winetricks.bash-completion /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/winetricks | |
_EOF_SCRIPT | |
###### create update_winetricks FINISH ######## | |
# Mark the update_winetricks script (we've just written out) as executable. See: | |
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/x9543.htm | |
chmod +x update_winetricks | |
# We must escalate privileges to root, as regular Linux users do not have write access to '/usr/bin'. | |
sudo mv update_winetricks /usr/bin/ |
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