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+ =========================================
+ 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.