A smart, flexible CLI tool to copy source code from a directory (or project) into your clipboard or a text file — while skipping unnecessary files using .ccignore.

• ✅ Recursively finds source code files in a target directory
• 🧹 Ignores folders like .git, node_modules, etc. using a .copy_codeignore file
• 🎯 Filters by file extension (--extensions=rb,py,js)
• 📋 Copies output to your clipboard or saves to a file (--print=pbcopy|txt)
• 🐚 Works from the terminal with one clean command

gem install copy_code

Or clone and build manually:

git clone https://github.com/your_username/copy_code.git
cd copy_code
gem build copy_code.gemspec
gem install ./copy_code-*.gem

copy_code [options] [paths]

Copy all .rb and .py files from the current directory and subdirectories:

copy_code -e rb,py

Copy .js, .ts, and .json files from a specific folder and write to a file:

copy_code ~/projects/my-app -e js,ts,json -p txt

Write output to a specific file:

copy_code ~/projects/my-app -e rb -p txt -o ~/tmp/my_code.txt

Write output to the project root:

copy_code ~/projects/my-app -e rb -p txt -o .

Copy all .rb and .py files from the current directory and subdirectories:

copy_code -e rb,py

Copy .js, .ts, and .json files from a specific folder and write to a file:

copy_code ~/projects/my-app -e js,ts,json -p txt

copy_code -e rb,py

Copy .js, .ts, and .json files from a specific folder and write to a file:

copy_code ~/projects/my-app -e js,ts,json -p txt

copy_code -e rb,py

You can create a .ccignore file in your project directory to specify files and directories to ignore. This works similarly to .gitignore.

# Ignore all node_modules directories
node_modules/
# Ignore all .git directories
.git/
# Ignore all log files
*.log
# Ignore all temporary files
*.tmp
# Ignore all coverage directories
coverage/
# Ignore all virtual environments
.venv/

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.