#!/bin/sh
set -e

svcdir="${svcdir:-$HOME/.svc}"
PATH="$PATH:$svcdir"

[ -d ${svcdir} ] || mkdir -p ${svcdir}
cd ${svcdir} || exit 1

fn_usage() {
    printf "Usage: %s [ -k | -r | -s ] \n" "$(basename "$0")"
}
if_exec() {
    if ! [ $(stat -l ${2} | awk '{print $1}') = "-rwxr-xr-x" ];then
        printf "%s: %s is not executable \n" "$(basename "$0")" "$2"
    fi
}
case $1 in
    -k)
        if_exec ${2}
        ${2} ${1}
        ;;
    -r)
        if_exec ${2}
        ${2} ${1}
        ;;
    -s)
        if_exec ${2}
        ${2} ${1}
        ;;
esac

@prologic@twtxt.net what do you think about this thing?

here’s a basic sketch in Go

package main                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                            
import (                                                                                                                                                    
        "flag"                                                                                                                                              
        "fmt"                                                                                                                                               
        "os"                                                                                                                                                
)                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                            
var (                                                                                                                                                       
        kill = flag.String("k", "", "stop a unit")                                                                                                          
        restart = flag.String("r", "", "restart a unit")                                                                                                    
        start = flag.String("s", "", "start a unit")                                                                                                        
)                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                            
main() {                                                                                                                                                    
        flag.Parse()                                                                                                                                        
        if flag.NArg() == 0 {                                                                                                                               
                fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Usage: svc [options] [service] \n")                                                                                 
                flag.PrintDefaults()                                                                                                                        
                os.Exit(1)                                                                                                                                  
        }                                                                                                                                                   
}

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk What’s this sorry? 🤔 Gimme a one or two sentence description 🤗

@prologic@twtxt.net attempt to write a one-off (without daemon) service manager, by the way

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk Ahh I see!

Looks good so far, keep going 👌