Command-line utility for generating boilerplate files. At the moment, it's a glorified file-copy utility, but the plan is to include basic templating in the future.
The utility itself lives in a single file, boiler.py. To install, just drop the file (or a link to the file) anywhere in your PATH.
To run the tests, download both files, make sure test-boiler.py can reference boiler.py via import boiler (putting them in the same folder is easiest), and run python test-boiler.py.
The utility copies named files from a templates directory (by default, ~/.boiler) into an output directory (by default, the working directory):
$ ls
awesome-program.c
$ ls ~/.boiler
build.xml setup.py Makefile LICENSE
$ boiler.py Makefile LICENSE
$ ls
awesome-program.c Makefile LICENSEThe default templates directory and output directory may be overridden:
$ ls project
$ ls ../templates
build.xml setup.py Makefile LICENSE
$ boiler.py --templates-dir ../templates --output-dir project Makefile LICENSE
$ ls project
Makefile LICENSE