Generate

Generate (gen) is a command line script template automation tool written in bash 3.2+. Generate automates the creation of script files, modifies file permissions, inputs custom and default script templates, and launches your favorite editor seamlessly.

Recently added:

• Improved -c option.
  • Custom modes are now sent directly to chmod and error handling is done there (within the create_file function)
• Added -r option to make files read_only (after initial write).
  • The primary use case that prompted this addition was needing to copy/paste pem keys for AWS EC2 instances (which require 400 permissions).
• Added support for configuration file.
  • Using the Makefile install, gen.conf is installed to ~/.config/gen and populated with the variables used by gen to determine application behavior. This provides and easy place to configure default editors, or set custom mode bits, etc.
  • Except for editor & mode; the other variables available can be set to true and gen will behave as though the corresponding command line options were selected. Command line options given at run-time will over-ride this config file.

Upcoming features:

• Continued bug testing/verifying functionality across Linux/BSD/MacOS.

Please send me any ideas for increasing portability, or adding features!

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