diff --git a/bin/create-script b/bin/create-script
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+../create-script/create-script.sh
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diff --git a/create-script/README.md b/create-script/README.md
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+# Create script
+
+## About
+a simple way to create a script folder structure as well as linking it to the bin folder
diff --git a/create-script/create-script.sh b/create-script/create-script.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+fail() {
+    echo "Fatal error: $1"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+NAME=$1
+
+if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then
+    echo "Usage: create-script [name]"
+    exit 1;
+fi
+
+[ -f "$HOME/.scripts/bin/$NAME" ] && fail "script already exists"
+
+echo "Creating script folder"
+cd "$HOME/.scripts" || exit 1
+mkdir "$NAME" || exit 1
+
+echo "Creating README.md"
+echo "\
+# $NAME
+
+## About
+-- about section here --
+
+## Requirements
+-- any requirements --"\
+> "$NAME/README.md" || exit 1
+
+echo "Creating $NAME.sh"
+echo "\
+#!/bin/sh"\
+> "$NAME/$NAME.sh" || exit 1
+
+echo "Linking $NAME.sh to bin folder"
+chmod +x "$NAME/$NAME.sh" || exit 1
+ln -s -r "$NAME/$NAME.sh" "bin/$NAME" || exit 1
+
+echo "Done"