Discussion on: My three steps to more manageable bash profiles

$ nano nickstuff # the source code as you had in the post

$ nano story.bash
  #!/bin/bash
  cp $story_dir/nickstuff ~/.nickstuff
  if ! grep -q 'source ~/.nickstuff' ~/.bashrc; then
    echo 'source ~/.nickstuff' >> ~/.bashrc
  fi

$ nano sparrow.json
  {
    "name" : "nick-bash-stuff",
    "version" : "0.0.1" 
  } 

$ sparrow plg upload 

   $ sparrow plg install nick-bash-stuff
   $ sparrow plg run nick-bash-stuff