Overview

Minimal Rust CLI app with no external dependencies. Creates text files. May create parent directories recursively, override existing files and output verbosely. Default text for new files supported.

Install with cargo install mkfile.

Description

mkfile [OPTION]... PATH...

Options:

• -d --dry - perform "dry" run, always verbose;
• -v --verbose - print a message for each file;
• -p --parents - create parent directories recursively;
• -o --override - override already existing files;
• -T --text "STRING" - default text for each file;
• --help - display help message and exit;
• --version - display version message and exit.

Usage example

Basic example. Create new file silently.

$ mkfile file.txt

Create multiple files (with text, verbosely).

$ mkfile file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt -vT "Default text"
/home/user/file1.txt: Created
/home/user/file2.txt: Created
/home/user/file3.txt: Created

Create file with parent directory (verbosely).

$ mkfile -vp parent/file.txt
/home/user/parent/file.txt: Created with parent

Dry run example. Be aware that /root_file.txt will not be created without root privileges.

$ mkfile -d new_dir/file.txt new_file.txt existing_file.txt /root_file.txt
/home/user/new_dir/file.txt: Parent does not exist
/home/user/new_file.txt: To be created 
/home/user/existing_file.txt: Already exist
/root_file.txt: To be created

TODO

• Create tests
• chmod parameters