Skapalon

What does it do?

Skapalon is a command-line program which reads a text template and expands it using the environment variables. It reads the template from the stdin and outputs on the stdout. Here is how you can use it:

cat template.txt | skapalon | result.txt

And now for a bit more detailed example

$ cat template.txt

Your home holder is {{HOME}}
Your shell is {{SHELL}}
Your PATH is {{PATH}}

$ cat template.txt | skapalon	

Your home holder is /Users/petar
Your shell is /bin/zsh
Your PATH is ./node_modules/.bin:/Users/petar/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

What is it good for

I use it to generate configuration files for my apps inside Docker containers.

What is it with the name

Skapalon means "template" in Icelandic