#!/usr/bin/env bash # Replaces all {{VAR}} by the $VAR value in a template file and outputs it # Use with -h to output all variables # curtesy of https://github.com/lavoiesl/bash-templater/blob/master/templater.sh if [[ ! -f "$1" ]]; then echo "Usage: VAR=value $0 template" >&2 exit 1 fi template="$1" vars=$(grep -oE '\{\{\s*[A-Za-z0-9_]+\s*\}\}' "$template" | sort | uniq | sed -e 's/^{{//' -e 's/}}$//') if [[ -z "$vars" ]]; then echo "Warning: No variable was found in $template, syntax is {{VAR}}" >&2 fi var_value() { var="${1}" eval echo \$"${var}" } ## # Escape custom characters in a string # Example: escape "ab'\c" '\' "'" ===> ab\'\\c # function escape_chars() { local content="${1}" shift for char in "$@"; do content="${content//${char}/\\${char}}" done echo "${content}" } function echo_var() { local var="${1}" local content="${2}" local escaped="$(escape_chars "${content}" "\\" '"')" echo "${var}=\"${escaped}\"" } declare -a replaces replaces=() # Reads default values defined as {{VAR=value}} and delete those lines # There are evaluated, so you can do {{PATH=$HOME}} or {{PATH=`pwd`}} # You can even reference variables defined in the template before defaults=$(grep -oE '^\{\{[A-Za-z0-9_]+=.+\}\}$' "${template}" | sed -e 's/^{{//' -e 's/}}$//') IFS=$'\n' for default in $defaults; do var=$(echo "${default}" | grep -oE "^[A-Za-z0-9_]+") current="$(var_value "${var}")" # Replace only if var is not set if [[ -n "$current" ]]; then eval "$(echo_var "${var}" "${current}")" else eval "${default}" fi # remove define line replaces+=("-e") replaces+=("/^{{${var}=/d") vars="${vars} ${var}" done vars="$(echo "${vars}" | tr " " "\n" | sort | uniq)" if [[ "$2" = "-h" ]]; then for var in $vars; do value="$(var_value "${var}")" echo_var "${var}" "${value}" done exit 0 fi # Replace all {{VAR}} by $VAR value for var in $vars; do value="$(var_value "${var}")" if [[ -z "$value" ]]; then echo "Warning: $var is not defined and no default is set, replacing by empty" >&2 fi # Escape slashes value="$(escape_chars "${value}" "\\" '/' ' ')"; replaces+=("-e") replaces+=("s/{{\s*${var}\s*}}/${value}/g") done sed "${replaces[@]}" "${template}"