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I needed a very simple tool to automate some very simple things.

curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperdev-code/templatey/main/templatey

Usage

./templatey -c <config files> -t <template files>

What?

This is a tool for quickly creating many files based on templates, and filling in the gaps with values defined in a config.

Config files

These files have a very simple syntax. Here is a complicated config called 'templatey.config' with a custom selector:

# This is a comment

@selector=@...@

background-color=#334466
foreground-color=#664433

This particular selector is the default, so it can be omitted.

Selectors

Sometimes, you might use many different file types, and some characters may already have meaning. So multiple selectors can be defined aswell:

# Anything with the following pattern works! (yes, even spaces)
@selector=#...#
@selector=<templatey>...</templatey>

When selectors are defined, the default selector is replaced!

Keys and values

The keys and values are used to replace content inside the template.

# Anything can be a key, as long as the beginning is alphabetic!
some entry = some value
# the key 'some entry ', would be replaced with ' some value' (yes, this includes spaces!)

Template files

These can be any file that you feed to the program, they likely contain your patterns somewhere in them. For example, take the file style.css.templatey:

body {
  background-color: @background-color@;
  color: <templatey>foreground-color</templatey>;
}

Note: The template file can have any extension, after processing, the extension is removed.

Usage

Running the command

./templatey -c templatey.config -t style.css.templatey 

The following file named 'style.css' will be produced.

body {
  background-color: #334466;
  color: #664433;
}

Predefine arguments

To run the program by only typing ./templatey, arguments can be predefined in the top of the script. Simply add all templates and configs to CONFIG_FILES and TEMPLATE_FILES respectively.

What's with the spaces?

Parsing is incredibly naive, I might write a decent parser in the future. But I won't encounter it in my usecases.