skel

Script to manage skeleton files/directories using little more than a simple filesystem.

Install

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edemko/skel/master/skel.sh -O ~/bin/skel

Usage

Skeleton files/folders are stored in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/skel. The first level of directories in this folder are called "packages". All the files and folders under a package are valid templates.

The skel program takes a command, one of list, mk, or read. Run skel --help for a full listing of the commands and their options/arguments.

Template Language

Both file contents and file names can be have template holes. A template hole takes one of two forms:

• @@@varname@@@: where the varname can be any non-empty sequence of characters i nA-Z0-9_.
• @@@varname=$(bash command)@@@: the default value is generated by the bash command (e.g. date +'%Y').

For security, shell commands are not executed until the user submits an empty line in response to a prompt.