deno-shebang

Make TypeScript/JavaScript files truly standalone self-executable.

What?!

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:-"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"}";};s(){ deno eval "import{satisfies as e}from'https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts';Deno.exit(e(Deno.version.deno,'$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.

Requirements

These are the only things you need, to run a script that has this shebang:

• /bin/sh a.k.a. Bourne shell, POSIX shell
• curl
• unzip

As you can see, deno needs NOT be installed.

How to use

Step 1: Copy-paste shebang file header

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:-"${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"}";};s(){ deno eval "import{satisfies as e}from'https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts';Deno.exit(e(Deno.version.deno,'$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 "$0" "$@"

Step 2: chmod it

Set the executable flag on the file:

chmod +x myscript.ts

Step 3: Run it!

./myscript.ts

At this point, it doesn't even need to be named .ts. You can remove the extension, or name it something else.

Configuration

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.

Features

Read from stdin

Your script can read from stdin, and it will work fine.

For example:

cat inputfile.txt | ./myscript.ts

Arguments

Your script is free to access command-line arguments.

./myscript.ts --help
./myscript.ts -i inputfile.txt -o outputfile.txt

curl | sh

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/[email protected]/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.

curl | sh + arguments

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

Full source code

You can view the full un-minified source code in:

• src/deno-shebang.sh
• src/deno-shebang-piped.sh

Complete examples

• example.ts
• example.min.ts
• example-piped.ts
• example-piped.min.ts

License

CC0-1.0

deno-shebang by Hugo Josefson is marked with CC0 1.0