cdist-new-type(1)

cdist-new-type1

Create new type skeleton

Usage

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

Overview

cdist-new-type is a helper script that creates new type skeleton. It is then up to the type author to finish the type.

It creates skeletons for the following files:

•

man.rst

•

manifest

•

gencode-remote.

Upon creation it prints the path to the newly created type directory.

Arguments

TYPE-NAME

Name of the new type.

AUTHOR-NAME

Type author's full name.

AUTHOR-NAME

Type author's email.

TYPE-BASE-PATH

Path to the base directory of the type. If not set 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

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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+).

Releases

3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13

Authors

Steven Armstrong <[email protected]>
Darko Poljak <[email protected]>

From cdist 7.0.0-5 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.