Make TypeScript/JavaScript files truly standalone self-executable.
Put this two line shebang header
in a Deno-compatible .ts
or .js
file, to make it standalone self-executable:
#!/bin/sh
// 2>/dev/null;DENO_VERSION_RANGE="^1.42.0";DENO_RUN_ARGS="";set -e;V="$DENO_VERSION_RANGE";A="$DENO_RUN_ARGS";h(){ [ -x "$(command -v "$1" 2>&1)" ];};g(){ u="$([ "$(id -u)" != 0 ]&&echo sudo||:)";if h brew;then echo "brew install $1";elif h apt;then echo "($u apt update && $u DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install -y $1)";elif h yum;then echo "$u yum install -y $1";elif h pacman;then echo "$u pacman -yS --noconfirm $1";elif h opkg-install;then echo "$u opkg-install $1";fi;};p(){ q="$(g "$1")";if [ -z "$q" ];then echo "Please install '$1' manually, then try again.">&2;exit 1;fi;eval "o=\"\$(set +o)\";set -x;$q;set +x;eval \"\$o\"">&2;};f(){ h "$1"||p "$1";};w(){ [ -n "$1" ] && "$1" -V >/dev/null 2>&1;};U="$(l=$(printf "%s" "$V"|wc -c);for i in $(seq 1 $l);do c=$(printf "%s" "$V"|cut -c $i);printf '%%%02X' "'$c";done)";D="$(w "$(command -v deno||:)"||:)";t(){ i="$(if h findmnt;then findmnt -Ononoexec,noro -ttmpfs -nboAVAIL,TARGET|sort -rn|while IFS=$'\n\t ' read -r a m;do [ "$a" -ge 150000000 ]&&[ -d "$m" ]&&printf %s "$m"&&break||:;done;fi)";printf %s "${i:-"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"}";};s(){ deno eval "import{satisfies as e}from'https://deno.land/x/semver@v1.4.1/mod.ts';Deno.exit(e(Deno.version.deno,'$V')?0:1);">/dev/null 2>&1;};e(){ R="$(t)/deno-range-$V/bin";mkdir -p "$R";export PATH="$R:$PATH";s&&return;f curl;v="$(curl -sSfL "https://semver-version.deno.dev/api/github/denoland/deno/$U")";i="$(t)/deno-$v";ln -sf "$i/bin/deno" "$R/deno";s && return;f unzip;([ "${A#*-q}" != "$A" ]&&exec 2>/dev/null;curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh|DENO_INSTALL="$i" sh -s $DENO_INSTALL_ARGS "$v"|grep -iv discord>&2);};e;exec deno run $A "$0" "$@"
It automatically downloads a correct version of the single deno executable if needed, to a temp directory, and runs the script directly using that.
However, if it finds deno
already installed, and its version is satisfactory,
it uses that instead without downloading deno at all. For example from a
previous run, or from an otherwise installed deno
by the user.
These are the only things you need, to run a script that has this shebang:
/bin/sh
a.k.a. Bourne shell, POSIX shellcurl
unzip
As you can see, deno needs NOT be installed.
Copy/paste this two-liner, into the beginning of your TypeScript file:
#!/bin/sh
// 2>/dev/null;DENO_VERSION_RANGE="^1.42.0";DENO_RUN_ARGS="";set -e;V="$DENO_VERSION_RANGE";A="$DENO_RUN_ARGS";h(){ [ -x "$(command -v "$1" 2>&1)" ];};g(){ u="$([ "$(id -u)" != 0 ]&&echo sudo||:)";if h brew;then echo "brew install $1";elif h apt;then echo "($u apt update && $u DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install -y $1)";elif h yum;then echo "$u yum install -y $1";elif h pacman;then echo "$u pacman -yS --noconfirm $1";elif h opkg-install;then echo "$u opkg-install $1";fi;};p(){ q="$(g "$1")";if [ -z "$q" ];then echo "Please install '$1' manually, then try again.">&2;exit 1;fi;eval "o=\"\$(set +o)\";set -x;$q;set +x;eval \"\$o\"">&2;};f(){ h "$1"||p "$1";};w(){ [ -n "$1" ] && "$1" -V >/dev/null 2>&1;};U="$(l=$(printf "%s" "$V"|wc -c);for i in $(seq 1 $l);do c=$(printf "%s" "$V"|cut -c $i);printf '%%%02X' "'$c";done)";D="$(w "$(command -v deno||:)"||:)";t(){ i="$(if h findmnt;then findmnt -Ononoexec,noro -ttmpfs -nboAVAIL,TARGET|sort -rn|while IFS=$'\n\t ' read -r a m;do [ "$a" -ge 150000000 ]&&[ -d "$m" ]&&printf %s "$m"&&break||:;done;fi)";printf %s "${i:-"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"}";};s(){ deno eval "import{satisfies as e}from'https://deno.land/x/semver@v1.4.1/mod.ts';Deno.exit(e(Deno.version.deno,'$V')?0:1);">/dev/null 2>&1;};e(){ R="$(t)/deno-range-$V/bin";mkdir -p "$R";export PATH="$R:$PATH";s&&return;f curl;v="$(curl -sSfL "https://semver-version.deno.dev/api/github/denoland/deno/$U")";i="$(t)/deno-$v";ln -sf "$i/bin/deno" "$R/deno";s && return;f unzip;([ "${A#*-q}" != "$A" ]&&exec 2>/dev/null;curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh|DENO_INSTALL="$i" sh -s $DENO_INSTALL_ARGS "$v"|grep -iv discord>&2);};e;exec deno run $A "$0" "$@"
Set the executable flag on the file:
chmod +x myscript.ts
./myscript.ts
At this point, it doesn't even need to be named .ts
. You can remove the
extension, or name it something else.
In DENO_VERSION_RANGE
, you can change to whatever
Semantic Versioning range of the
Deno releases your script expects.
In DENO_RUN_ARGS
, you may set any additional arguments to deno run
, such as
--allow-read=. --allow-network
.
Your script can read from stdin
, and it will work fine.
For example:
cat inputfile.txt | ./myscript.ts
Your script is free to access command-line arguments.
./myscript.ts --help
./myscript.ts -i inputfile.txt -o outputfile.txt
There is an extended variant of this shebang, which will also let you pipe your
script into sh
:
#!/bin/sh
// 2>/dev/null;DENO_VERSION_RANGE="^1.42.0";DENO_RUN_ARGS="";set -e;V="$DENO_VERSION_RANGE";A="$DENO_RUN_ARGS";h(){ [ -x "$(command -v "$1" 2>&1)" ];};g(){ u="$([ "$(id -u)" != 0 ]&&echo sudo||:)";if h brew;then echo "brew install $1";elif h apt;then echo "($u apt update && $u DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install -y $1)";elif h yum;then echo "$u yum install -y $1";elif h pacman;then echo "$u pacman -yS --noconfirm $1";elif h opkg-install;then echo "$u opkg-install $1";fi;};p(){ q="$(g "$1")";if [ -z "$q" ];then echo "Please install '$1' manually, then try again.">&2;exit 1;fi;eval "o=\"\$(set +o)\";set -x;$q;set +x;eval \"\$o\"">&2;};f(){ h "$1"||p "$1";};w(){ [ -n "$1" ] && "$1" -V >/dev/null 2>&1;};U="$(l=$(printf "%s" "$V"|wc -c);for i in $(seq 1 $l);do c=$(printf "%s" "$V"|cut -c $i);printf '%%%02X' "'$c";done)";D="$(w "$(command -v deno||:)"||:)";t(){ i="$(if h findmnt;then findmnt -Ononoexec,noro -ttmpfs -nboAVAIL,TARGET|sort -rn|while IFS=$'\n\t ' read -r a m;do [ "$a" -ge 150000000 ]&&[ -d "$m" ]&&printf %s "$m"&&break||:;done;fi)";printf %s "${i:-"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"}";};z(){ m="$(command -v "$0"||true)";l="/* 2>/dev/null";! [ -z "$m" ]&&[ -r "$m" ]&&[ "$(head -c3 "$m")" = '#!/' ]&&(read x && read y &&[ "$x" = "#!/bin/sh" ]&&[ "$l" != "${y%"$l"*}" ])<"$m";};s(){ deno eval "import{satisfies as e}from'https://deno.land/x/semver@v1.4.1/mod.ts';Deno.exit(e(Deno.version.deno,'$V')?0:1);">/dev/null 2>&1;};e(){ R="$(t)/deno-range-$V/bin";mkdir -p "$R";export PATH="$R:$PATH";s&&return;f curl;v="$(curl -sSfL "https://semver-version.deno.dev/api/github/denoland/deno/$U")";i="$(t)/deno-$v";ln -sf "$i/bin/deno" "$R/deno";s && return;f unzip;([ "${A#*-q}" != "$A" ]&&exec 2>/dev/null;curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh|DENO_INSTALL="$i" sh -s $DENO_INSTALL_ARGS "$v"|grep -iv discord>&2);};e;z&&exec deno run $A "$0" "$@";exec deno run $A - "$@"<<'//🔚'
Using this, you can run both run the script normally from a file, or directly
from the internet using curl
and sh
:
curl -s https://example.com/myscript.ts | sh
However, piping the script into sh
, you can no longer read from stdin
like
above. That's because deno
will be reading the script from stdin
instead.
When piping the script through sh
, you can still use command-line arguments.
You just have to prefix them to sh
with -s --
like this:
curl -s https://example.com/myscript.ts | sh -s -- -i inputfile.txt -o outputfile.txt
You can view the full un-minified source code in:
CC0-1.0
deno-shebang by Hugo Josefson is marked with CC0 1.0