korvike/README.md

Luzifer / korvike

korvike is the finnish translation to the word "replacer" and that is what it does: It takes a Go template and executes it.

Available functions

• {{ .<variable name> }}
  Take key-value pairs from the CLI and replace them inside the template

  # echo "{{ .foo }}" | korvike -v foo=bar
  bar
  

• {{ env <variable name> [default value] }}
  Read environment variables and replace them inside the template

  # export FOO=bar
  # echo '{{env "FOO"}}' | korvike
  bar
  

• {{ file <file name> [default value] }}
  Read a file and place it inside the template

  # echo "Hello World" > hello
  # echo '{{file "hello"}}' | korvike
  Hello World
  

• {{ now <format string> }}
  Format the current date into the template (uses Go time format)

  # echo '{{now "2006-01-02 15:04:05"}}' | korvike
  2017-04-17 16:27:34
  

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