manufacture 0.6.1

A simple command-line tool to create and manage files.

Manufacture

Manufacture is a command-line tool designed to help developers manage and create files with specified names and types efficiently. It streamlines file handling tasks, making it easier to organize project files.

Features

• Create files with specific names and types
• Rename files with optional backup
• Change file permissions and ownership
• Create directories
• Display file information
• Compress directories
• Easy installation via pip
• Simplified file management from the terminal
• Short-form commands for quicker usage
• Ability to handle multiple filenames or directories in a single command

Installation

You can install Manufacture using pip:

pip install manufacture

Usage

# Create a new file with a specified name
manufacture create <filename>
manufacture -c <filename>

# Create a new directory
manufacture directory <dirname>
manufacture -d <dirname>

# Rename a file with an optional backup
manufacture change <oldname> <newname> [--backup]
manufacture -ch <oldname> <newname> [--backup]

# Change file permissions
manufacture permissions <filename> <permissions>
manufacture -p <filename> <permissions>

# Change file ownership
manufacture ownership <filename> <owner> <group>
manufacture -o <filename> <owner> <group>

# Display information about a file
manufacture info <filename>
manufacture -i <filename>

# Compress a directory
manufacture compress <directory> --output=<output>
manufacture -z <directory> --output=<output>

# Create directories and add content to them
manufacture create_with_content create_with_content <dirname> -c <file>... -d <dirname>... [-cc <dirname> -c <file>... -d <dirname>...] 
manufacture -cc -cc <dirname> -c <file>... -d <dirname>... [-cc <dirname> -c <file>... -d <dirname>...]

Examples

Create one or multiple files:

manufacture create script1.py script2.rs
manufacture -c main.go test.rs

Create a new directory:

manufacture directory dir1 dir2
manufacture -d dir1 dir2

Rename a file with backup:

manufacture change oldname.txt newname.txt --backup
manufacture -ch oldname.txt newname.txt --backup

Change file permissions to read, write, and execute for the owner:

manufacture permissions my_script.py 755
manufacture -p my_script.py 755

Change file ownership to user jack and group developers:

manufacture ownership my_script.py jack developers
manufacture -o my_script.py jack developers

Display information about a file:

manufacture info my_script.py
manufacture -i my_script.py

Compress a directory:

manufacture compress my_project --output=my_project.zip
manufacture -z my_project --output=my_project.zip

Create dir1 with files main.py, test.go and a subdirectory frontend, and create dir2 with a subdirectory backend and files start.rs, docs.txt

manufacture -cc dir1 -c main.py test.go -d frontend -cc dir2 -d backend -c start.rs docs.txt