shin

include shell files

built to scratch a personal itch. SHIN is an awk(1) script that plops include files in to .shin files.

recently rewritten. now use it like this:

#!/bin/sh

. shin # if shin is in $PATH this should Just Work(TM)

do_stuff_here

shin included_file

other_stuff

you can run the above script itself, or you can “compile” it by running shin -c <script>, which will insert included_file in the correct spot in the file and remove the . shin line (only if it’s by itself, which really it should be).

build a shell file

use the program shinb to build a shell file on the command line. You don’t need to include -c in the command line when calling shinb.