https://github.com/sam0x17/append-if
A simple CLI utility for appending text to files based on simple conditional logic about the contents of those files. Particularly useful for appending text to .bashrc and other places without accidentally appending the same thing multiple times.
https://github.com/sam0x17/append-if
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A simple CLI utility for appending text to files based on simple conditional logic about the contents of those files. Particularly useful for appending text to .bashrc and other places without accidentally appending the same thing multiple times.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/sam0x17/append-if
- Owner: sam0x17
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-09-04T05:29:31.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-09-04T06:19:56.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-08T04:49:43.855Z (8 months ago)
- Language: Rust
- Size: 9.77 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# append-if
 
A CLI utility for appending text to files based on simple conditional logic
about the contents of those files. Particularly useful for appending text to
.bashrc and other places without accidentally appending the same thing multiple
times.
## Installation
```
cargo install append-if
```
## Usage
```bash
append-if --mode missing --path ~/.bashrc --pattern '$HOME/.rvm/bin' --append '
# Add RVM to PATH for scripting. Make sure this is the last PATH variable change.
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"
'
```
## CLI Options
```
$ append-if --help
append-if 0.1.0
A utility for appending text to files based on simple conditional logic. Designed to be highly
useful in shell scripts
USAGE:
append-if [OPTIONS] --path --append
OPTIONS:
-a, --append Text to append to the end of the file if conditions are met
-c, --check-path Path of the file to check. Defaults to path
-h, --help Print help information
-m, --mode Mode used for conditional logic. Choices are 'missing',
'present', or 'always' [default: Missing]
-p, --path Path of the file you want to append to
--pattern Pattern to match against. Defaults to what we are appending.
Can be a string or regular expression. If an invalid regular
expression is provided, the input will be treated as a string
we are searching for in the target file
-v, --verbose Flag to enable verbose output
-V, --version Print version information
```