Creating a project template from an executable file⌗

First, open a new file using nano:

sudo nano videofile

Next, add your tasks, separated by a new line:

record video edit video upload video

Then just add “task add” to the front of each line:

task add record video task add edit video task add upload video

Now exit the file and save:

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And now we can make the file executable:

sudo chmod +x videofile`

Now we can create all those tasks simply by executing that file:

./videofile

NOW, in order to bake in the dependencies, we need to add some stuff to the line items in the file. So we go back into that file:

sudo nano videofile

And change the first line to

recordstring=`task add record video

Then enter a new line beneath that:

recordid=`echo $recordstring | grep -o -E '[0-9]+'

Then just repeat that process for each task.

The last thing we need to do is use the variable for the id in the creation of the task. So the task for editing the video will look like this:

editstring=`task add edit video $recordid`
editid=`echo $recordstring | grep -o -E '[0-9]+'

Etc.

Drop a comment below if you have any questions.