Cast

command line app for file system templates.

Cast can modify the structure of multiple directories at once. Provided these directories are registered for a common template - moving, renaming or deleting folders from that template will apply those changes to the directories (called instances of the template).

Installation

Linux:

git clone https://github.com/taesko/cast.git
cd cast
pip install .

NOTE: This project has only been tested on linux. Installation is no different on other OS provided git and pip are installed, but it's not guaranteed to work properly.

Usage example

Use any existing directory to make a template out of it.

cast add template_name ./dir_path

Register any other directory to that template as it's instance

cast register template_name /directory/we/want/registered

If the directory's structure is not conformed to the template's an error is raised. That is the instance must contain directories with the same as the template's. (it is OK for the instance to have other directories as well)

Create additional directories inside a template:

cast add -m template_name various dir_names dir_names/similar to mkdir arguments

Rename a directory inside a template

cast mv template_name relative_src_path relative_dst_path

Remove a directory from a template

cast rm template_name multiple relative/directory/paths

Commands that modify a templates structure all take the name of the template as a first argument and relative paths (considered from the root of the template not the current working directory) to the desired directories as additional arguments. Moving and renaming directories by default applies the same changes to instances of the template as well but this is not true for removing directories.

For full information:

cast --help

Development setup

There is no development branch (yet) and setup is nearly identical to user installation.

git clone https://github.com/taesko/cast.git
cd cast
pip install -e .

Release History

• 0.0.2
  • Add proper logging (log file can be found in ~/.cast/logs.txt).
• 0.0.1
  • Work in progress

Meta

Author: Antonio Todorov – taeskow@gmail.com

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

Contributing

Fork and submit a pull request.