zap can be used as a drop-in replacement for touch, but it also allows you to create files pre-populated from templates. It can open newly created files with your $EDITOR and create intermediate directories if they do not exist.
brew tap kolja/zap https://github.com/kolja/zap
brew install kolja/zap/zapInstall into your profile:
nix profile install github:kolja/zapRun without installing:
nix run github:kolja/zap -- --versionzap works pretty much exactly like touch but it has some additional features:
When you specify the -T <template_name>, it will look for a template file in
$ZAP_CONFIG/templates/<template_name>
Any newly created file will be pre-populated with contents from the template.
If ZAP_CONFIG is not set, it defaults to ~/.config/zap/.
You can also pass a context with the -C (or --context) to pass key-value pairs to the template.
Usage: zap [OPTIONS] [FILENAMES]...
Arguments:
[FILENAMES]...
Options:
-T, --template <TEMPLATE_NAME> Optional template name to pre-populate the file.
Templates are sourced from ~/.config/zap/<template_name>.
-C, --context <CONTEXT> Optional context to use when rendering the template.
should contain key-value pairs in the format `foo=bar,baz=qux`.
-p, --create-intermediate-dirs always create intermediate directories if they do not exist
(analogous to `mkdir -p`)
-o, --open Open the file with your $EDITOR
-a only update the access time
-m only update the modification time
-c, --no-create Don't create the file if it doesn't exist
-d, --date <DATE> pass date as human readable string (RFC3339)
-t, --timestamp <TIMESTAMP> pass date as POSIX compliant timestamp: [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]
-r, --reference <REFERENCE> Use access and modification times from the specified file
-A, --adjust <ADJUST> Adjust time [-][[hh]mm]SS
the `-c` flag is implied
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
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