mk

Just make files/directories.

When making files, I often try to touch foo/bar.txt, but foo/ doesn't exist. So I have to mkdir foo; touch foo/bar.txt. That's annoying.

Installation

cargo install make

Usage

mk just does the right thing. mk foo/bar.txt will create the directory foo/ and then bar.txt as a regular file.

mk will infer if it should create a file or directory based on if the path has an extension. So foo/bar will be a directory, but foo/bar.ext will be a file. You can force a file to be created with -f, or a directory with -d.

mk can also take input from stdin. So curl example.com | mk examples/example.com.txt will create the examples/ directory, the example.com.txt file, and pipe the input to that new file.

mk will mark created files as executable if they have an extension that is usually executable (sh, exe, bat, jar, and more).

mk will error if the file already exists, unless you specify -o for --overwrite.

Potential Features

• Create temporary files/directories with -t
• User configurable templates for specific extensions