Yankit is a utility for creating macros that generate folder structures. Basically, it copies the entire folder structure (without the files) and stores it in a .json file, allowing you to create any saved structure everytime you want to make a new project.

Copying directories without their files using the terminal is a pain, besides, you are not even able to store the folders to create a new project later, so I always find myself making directories everytime I want to start a new project. Yankit gets rid of this hassle.

You can install yankit globally through npm (make sure you have the latest version of Node.js installed).

npm install yankit -g

Yank a folder structure like this:

yankit yank -f path -n macro_name

Where "path" is the path of the folder containing the structure and "macro_name" is the name of the macro to be stored.

Yank a folder structure from a Git repository:

yankit yank -u url -n macro_name

Where "url" is the url of the repository and "macro_name" is the name of the macro to be stored.

Paste a folder structure like this:

yankit paste -f path -n macro_name

Where "path" is the destined path and "macro_name" is the name of the macro to activate (e. g. yankit paste -f ./ -n cpp)

Delete a macro from the config file this way:

yankit unyank -n macro_name

Where "macro_name" is the name of the macro to delete.

List all saved file structure macros:

yankit list

This command returns a json object with all of the stored macros you have on your config file.

All macros are saved to a file called "data.json" on a subdirectory located in your .config (home/.config/yankit on Linux).

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