newf

I've always wondered what this werid "Templates" directory created by xdg-user-dirs is for. After research, it turned out to be quite useless even on full-armored desktop environment like KDE. Then I decided to write a script to utilize this dir. So here you are ...

newf is a m4-based file creator. It automatically detects filetypes based on target filenames and populates them using templates from your XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR.

Installation

Install main script, its manual page and fish completion script:

sudo make install

Also there are serveral editor intergration scripts in editor/.

Usage

• Basic: newf script.sh (detects sh type).
• Executable: newf +x run.py (creates an executable Python script).
• Explicit Type: newf -t c/header include/utils.h (uses template at c/header).
• Extra Templates: newf -d ~/my-templates notes.md (searches this dir first).
• Extra Config: newf -c ~/.config/newf/config.m4 report.tex (adds m4 macros).
• Dry Run: newf -o test.js (outputs the generated content to stdout).

See man newf for full documentation.