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@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ + ========================================= + fsub — substitute a file into other files + ========================================= + +fsub is a command-line utility to replace substrings within files with other +files. This has a variety of usecases, such as static-site generators. Take +for example the following skeleton HTML file: + + <!-- base.html --> + <table> + <tbody> + <!-- TABLE DATA --> + </tbody> + </table> + +We want to be able to generate the table data externally, and then fill in the +above table. With fsub this is made very easy. The following commands generate +table data which is written to “data.html”, and then replace the comment in the +base file with the contents of “data.html” and write the result to “index.html”: + + $ ./generate-table-data.sh >data.html + $ fsub '<!-- TABLE DATA -->' data.html base.html >index.html + +You can also use the special filename ‘-’ to represent the standard input, +allowing for usage in a pipeline: + + $ ./generate-table-data.sh + | fsub '<!-- TABLE DATA -->' - base.html >index.html + +This is just a very basic overview, for more information check the fsub(1) +manual page. |