CDIST-NEW-TYPE(1)

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version 7.0.0 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ cdist-new-type ✨

okay bestie, so cdist-new-type is the manual page for the little helper script that births a brand new cdist type for you. it's from the cdist manual, and honestly? it's giving ✨scaffolding✨.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cdist-new-type TYPE-NAME AUTHOR-NAME AUTHOR-EMAIL [TYPE-BASE-PATH]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

cdist-new-type is a helper script that creates a new type skeleton, no cap. and then — and this is the important part, bestie — it is up to the type author (that's you 💅) to actually finish the type. it hands you the bones, you bring the main character energy.

it creates skeletons for the following files:

  • man.rst
  • manifest
  • gencode-remote

the way that it prints the path to the newly created type directory upon creation… iconic. you literally get told where your new baby lives. 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • TYPE-NAME — name of the new type.
  • AUTHOR-NAME — type author's full name.
  • AUTHOR-NAME — type author's email. (yes bestie, the manpage really does say AUTHOR-NAME twice here 😭 not me catching that. the second one is the email one, fr fr.)
  • TYPE-BASE-PATH — path to the base directory of the type. if you don't set it, it defaults to '$PWD/type'.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

# Create new type __foo in ~/.cdist directory.
$ cd ~/.cdist
$ cdist-new-type '__foo' 'Foo Bar' 'foo.bar at foobar.org'
/home/foo/.cdist/type/__foo

look at that output. a whole path, just sitting there. ate. 👑

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • Steven Armstrong <steven-cdist--@--armstrong.cc>
  • Darko Poljak <darko.poljak--@--ungleich.ch>

🎀 COPYING 🎀

Copyright (C) 2019 Steven Armstrong, Darko Poljak. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+).

ungleich GmbH 2021

okay that's the whole page bestie, every last flag, path and copyright line accounted for 🫶

and a lil sign-off for you: this one's version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022. periodt. 💖✨

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