poke

because touch lacks meaning

Poke is a bash command, much like touch but with some brains to it. It is used to create a template for the programming language of your file.

Using poke

To install poke, clone the repository and install with the Makefile, using make install.

git clone https://github.com/GleasonK/poke.git
cd poke/
make install

If you just want to see poke in action, clone the repository and call the poke command:

git clone https://github.com/GleasonK/poke.git
cd poke/
./poke Test.java

Usage

poke [-lang|--flag] filename

The most basic usage is creating a new file, simply include the extension and if there is a template, poke will use it.

poke FileName.ext

Flags can be used to edit templates, or specify which template to use regardless of file extension. Available flags include:

Flag	Description
-h\|--help	The full filename with extension
--edit [lang]	The filename without extension
--global [key] [val]	Save a global poke value (more below)
-j\|--java	Creates file with Java template
-c	Creates file with C template
-cpp\|--c++	Creates file with C++ template
-cs\|--c#	Creates file with C# template
-f\|--f#	Creates file with F# template
-g\|--go	Creates file with Go template

Configuring Globals

poke --global AUTHOR "Your Name"

Saves the author to a global config file. Now all $AUTHOR template variables will be filled in with AUTHOR value.

Templates

Currently the following langauges have templates:

Java
C
C++
C#
F#
Go

Some of these languages I do not use often, so templates are based off internet searches, feel free to enhance them and submit a pull request!

Contributing

Please do contribute to this repository, I only use so many languages so the templates I provide are probably not the best. However, creating or modifying templates is easy!

The poke script checks the file extension (Ex: Kevin__.java__) and looks for a matching file poke__.java__ in the /tmpl folder. When making templates, you have access to a few variables:

Variable	Description
$FILE	The full filename with extension
$FNAME	The filename without extension
$DATE	Date that the file was created
$DIR	The files current directory

See poke.java for a good example of template creation.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for the future of this script!