I write a number of little programs (sometimes actually shell scripts, sometimes clojure programs) to do little things here and there, and I have written enough of these that I have really come to value limiting the number of files needed for these utilities. To that end I have something I have been playing with that might be of interest here: https://gist.github.com/hiredman/cd1b57894a19dda3a205ca129626a672 this is the first part of a file that is a shell script, clojure program, clojurescript program, and deps.edn all in one file