ubuntu install winetricks
#!/bin/sh
# Create and switch to a temporary directory writeable by current user. See:
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/subshells.html
cd "$(mktemp -d)" || exit 1
# Use a BASH "here document" to create an updater shell script file.
# See:
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html
# > outputs stdout to a file, overwriting any pre-existing file
# << takes input, directly from the script itself, till the second '_EOF_SCRIPT' marker, as stdin
# the cat command hooks these 2 streams up (stdin and stdout)
###### create update_winetricks START ########
cat > update_winetricks <<_EOF_SCRIPT
#!/bin/sh
# Create and switch to a temporary directory writeable by current user. See:
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/subshells.html
cd "\$(mktemp -d)"
# Download the latest winetricks script (master="latest version") from Github.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
# Mark the winetricks script (we've just downloaded) as executable. See:
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/x9543.htm
chmod +x winetricks
# Move the winetricks script to a location which will be in the standard user PATH. See:
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html
sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin
# Download the latest winetricks BASH completion script (master="latest version") from Github.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.bash-completion
# Move the winetricks BASH completion script to a standard location for BASH completion modules. See:
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/tabexpansion.html
sudo mv winetricks.bash-completion /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/winetricks
_EOF_SCRIPT
###### create update_winetricks FINISH ########
# Mark the update_winetricks script (we've just written out) as executable. See:
# https://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/x9543.htm
chmod +x update_winetricks
# We must escalate privileges to root, as regular Linux users do not have write access to '/usr/bin'.
sudo mv update_winetricks /usr/bin/