Installation • Command-line completion • Usage • Contributing • License

scratch is a simple utility for generating blank files for Go apps, utilities and packages.

Installation

Important

Before the first run you have to create a directory for your templates. By default, all templates must be stored in the ~/.config/scratch directory.

From sources

To install the scratch from sources, make sure you have a working Go 1.23+ workspace (instructions), then:

go install github.com/essentialkaos/scratch@latest

Command-line completion

You can generate completion for bash, zsh or fish shell.

Bash:

sudo scratch --completion=bash 1> /etc/bash_completion.d/scratch

ZSH:

sudo scratch --completion=zsh 1> /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/scratch

Fish:

sudo scratch --completion=fish 1> /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/scratch.fish

Man documentation

You can generate man page for scratch using next command:

scratch --generate-man | sudo gzip > /usr/share/man/man1/scratch.1.gz

Usage

Contributing

Before contributing to this project please read our Contributing Guidelines.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0