# A simple templating system for files and directories
Assuming you have a directory `~/.templates/post`:
```shell
$ tree ~/.templates/
/home/me/.templates/
└── post
├── author
│ ├── file.md
│ └── ??name2?.md
├── ?env?LANGUAGE?.md
└── ??name?.md
2 directories, 4 files
```
Go into a new directory and execute `new post`:
```shell
$ new post
Please give a value for 'name': Hello
Please give a value for 'name2': World
$ tree
.
├── author
│ ├── file.md
│ └── World.md
├── en_US.md
└── Hello.md
1 directory, 4 files
```
Voilà!
## How it works
It accepts one argument `dir` and then looks up either `~/.templates/dir/`,
or `%APPDATA%/dir/`. It then substitutes
- `??xxx?` by asking the user: `Please give a value for 'xxx':`
- `?env?xxx?` by reading the environment variable `xxx`
in both filenames and file contents, then copying the files into the current
directory (if that introduces slashes in a file name, it will happily split the
filename into directory structure). This tool works best with other simple tools
like [sos](https://github.com/schell/steeloverseer) and [shake](shakebuild.com)
in my experience.
## Possible issues
1. It should work on Windows, but that has not been tested.
2. There are no unit tests.
## Contributing
Contributions are always welcome, as long as they:
- Keep it simple
- Work cross-platform
Possible candidates include:
- Testing
- Adding new variable resources (git config, etc.)