skelate

A utility to create directory from skeletons, with templating support.

This is a tool inspired by the functionality provided by ansible-galaxy init.

Requirements

• python 3.8+

Installing

Install and update using pip:

pip install -U skelate

Alternatively, you can package and run skelate in a docker container:

make image

Usage

Basic usage is to treat skelate like cp -r, with expansion of j2 files.

skelate this/dir that/dir

If this/dir contains no files with a j2 extension, this will act exactly like cp -r.

If this/dir does contain files with a j2 extension, these will be expanded into that/dir, minus their .j2 suffix.

You can pass variables to templates in two ways:

# Read variables from a JSON file
skelate --vars path/to/vars.json this/dir that/dir

# Read variables from command line
skelate --extra-vars "key=value" \
  --extra-vars 'key={"key": ["value", "value"]}' \
  this/dir that/dir

For more options:

skelate --help

Authors

• iwaseatenbyagrue