In my daily working routine I do create a lot of shell scripts, LaTeX source and whatever. I always try to keep things simple and consistent. This not always being easy, so I wrote a Perl program that generates a standard template for a lot of standard code. This could be e.g. Bash shell, Perl, RPM spec file, LaTeX source, C source, etc.
The only thing this program needs is Perl and a file in your home
directory called .name.info. This file should contain a tag and the
value on a single line. An example:
name Ton Kersten firm Ton Kersten adr1 Address line 1 adr2 Address line 2 adr3 Address line 3 zipc Your zip or postal code cntr The Netherlands tele Tel: Telephone number tfax Fax: Faximile number mail Email adress cpri Copyright string
Header output
The output of the header --help command
header 4.9 by Ton Kersten
Syntax: header [options]
Options:
--nameinfo=filename Use an alternative name.info file <~/.name.info>
--language=language Programming language <bash>
--file=filename Output filename
--copyright=cpy Copyright message (<short>|yes|gnu|none)
--short Use a short header
--stdout Print the output to stdout
--headlang=nl|en Which header language to use <en>
--tabstop=n|--ts=n What tabstop size to use (4)
--width=n What headerwidth to use (80)
--vcs=cvs|svn|none What version control system to use <svn>
--help Print this help
Options can be abbriviated, as long as they can be uniquely identified
Supported program languages:
atroff bash c config html init js ksh latex nagios pascal
perl php rexx spec tic vim
The header script
…can be downloaded from the download section.