Giter8

Giter8 is a command line tool to generate files and directories from
templates published on GitHub or any other Git repository.
It’s implemented in Scala and runs through the sbt launcher, but it can produce output for any purpose.

Setup

Coursier

Giter8 and other Scala command line tools can be installed using Coursier.
See the coursier installation instruction to add it to your path.
Once cs is on your path, you can install giter8 with this command:

$ cs install giter8

and update it using:

$ cs update g8

Manual

It’s possible to manually download and install giter8 directly from Maven Central:

$ curl https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/foundweekends/giter8/giter8-bootstrap_2.12/0.13.1/giter8-bootstrap_2.12-0.13.1.sh > ~/bin/g8
$ chmod +x ~/bin/g8

Replace ~/bin/ with anything that is on your PATH. To make sure everything is working, try running g8 with no parameters, you should see

Error: Missing argument <template>
Try --help for more information. 

For more details see Giter8 documentation.

Credits

• Original implementation (C) 2010-2015 Nathan Hamblen and contributors
• Adapted and extended in 2016 by foundweekends project

Giter8 is licensed under Apache 2.0 license