touchlog

touchlog

A tool to create log files for a date.

Usage

The touchlog executable has the following options:

• '-date mmmddyyyy': a logfile is create with the supplied date
• '-outdir [dir]': write the logfile to inputted directory
• '-verbose': enable verbosity mode
• '-version': display the version information
• '-help': the help message is displayed

Installation

Install via go module:

go install github.com/sv4u/touchlog@latest

Install from tarball:

1. From development.sasankvishnubhatla.net/log-suite/touchlog download the touchlog-latest.tar
2. Extract touchlog-latest.tar to /usr/bin/local/touchlog
3. Add /usr/bin/local/touchlog to PATH

Install source:

1. From development.sasankvishnubhatla.net/log-suite/touchlog download the touchlog-latest-src.tar
2. Extract touchlog-latest-src.tar to /usr/bin/local/touchlog
3. Add /usr/bin/local/touchlog to PATH

Man Page

The man page for touchlog can be found here: touchlog.md. Please manually install touchlog with source to your system to use both touchlog and the man page.

To install the manpage, run sudo make install in the project.

Changelog

To generate a changelog, use git-chglog. Follow this command:

git-chglog -o CHANGELOG.md

License

See the License.