go-snippet

What is go-snippet?

You can define snippets which are inserted at files at places you want them to be.

Why go-snippet?

I have a bunch of bash scripts taht often use common functions. Instead of including all or having copies of a global include file in different repositories I wanted to be able to choose what to include and have an easier way to keep it in sync.

Give me an example

Suppose you write a lot of bash scripts and want headers in them. Instead of repeating the echos you write a function. As you do this over and over again, this is a good thing for a snippet.

So let’s assume we have a snippet like this asved as header.sh in your snippetdir:

function header () {
  echo
  echo "*** $1 ***"
  echo
}

You would then write a bash script like this:

#! /bin/bash

#### header.sh ###

header "Hello world!"

A call to go-snippet bash --file myfile.sh would generate the following file:

#! /bin/bash

#### header.sh ###
function header () {
  echo
  echo "*** $1 ***"
  echo
}
#### header.sh ###

header "Hello world!"

Here we go, a working script! Suppose you do not like to have stars but minus signs, so you change the snippet to:

function header () {
  echo
  echo "--- $1 ---"
  echo
}

Run the tooling again and you get:

#! /bin/bash

#### header.sh ###
function header () {
  echo
  echo "--- $1 ---"
  echo
}
#### header.sh ###

header "Hello world!"

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