cp-template

This is a very simple utility to generate directories based on templates.

Install

pip install cp-template

Usage

cp-template TEMPLATE_PATH DESTINATION_PATH key=value ...

Suppose you have the following directory structure (Note: the {{}}s are part of the filenames)

{{project}}/
  .gitignore
  README.md        # File contains "{{project}} by {{author}}"
  {{project}}/
    __init__.py

Then you can run the following command:

cp-template './{{project}}' pineapple author=me

And it will generate this in the current directory:

pineapple/
  .gitignore
  README.md        # File contains "pineapple by me"
  pineapple/
    __init__.py

The template directory does not have to contain {{...}}. If it does not, the stem of the destination path (last part of the path minus the extension) is placed in the STEM variable, so you can refer to it in the files using {{STEM}}.

More features will be added as I need them, but feel free to make PRs to contribute some.