CLTemplate

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Small commandline tool to create and use templates quickly

Installation

Simply run cargo install cltemplate to install the tool.

Using Templates

To use a template, do the following: 1. CD into the folder of the template (your terminal should be running at path/to/template) 2. Run template path/to/output and check the directory you provided

NOTE: the path/to/output folder MUST be created, or else you will get Error: Unable to copy file

Writing Templates

To write a template that others can use with this tool, you must: 1. Create a folder for the template (obviously) 2. In the root directory of the folder, create a template.txt file. In this file, there should be the name of each replaceable item, separated by newlines (ex: foo bar buz qux quux corge grault garply waldo fred plugh xyzzy thud )

  1. Fill in the rest of the folder with the files provided in the template. Anything defined in template.txt that has % around it (ex: %foo%) will be replaced by whatever the user inputs. Anything surrounded by % that is not included in template.txt will remain unchanged.
  2. Share your template and the installation process via your preferred method.

License

This tool is licensed under the MIT license.