┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 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:
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 '' 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 '' - base.html >index.html This is just a very basic overview, for more information check the fsub(1) manual page.