[ale] Text compiler

[DJ-Pfulio]

jinja2 is built-into ansible, so I've used it too.  Ansible could be
used for this pretty easily.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/assemble_module.html


On 10/11/2015 10:56 AM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> I used to use awk and perl for this kind of thing, and it's worth
> mentioning that server side includes (SSI) do this.
> 
> These days, though, I'd use jinja2 or another templating library. I have
> successfully used jinja2 to generate text other than HTML, including MS
> rich text format documents and LaTeX documents.
> 
> Using m4 is fun for historical reasons. The configuration of sendmail was
> done by generating the config files from m4 sources. The configure script
> that autoconf makes is also generated using m4, I believe.
> On Oct 10, 2015 8:02 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There's always awk
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:15 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/10/2015 06:41 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>>>> On 10/10/2015 6:34 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>>>> On 10/10/2015 05:14 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>      I've been looking for a tool that I can only describe as a text
>>>>>> compiler. The basic feature would be the ability to use something like
>>>>>> includes within a template file that references external files and
>>>>>> compile an output file that would be the amalgam of the text in the
>>>>>> template and the text of the referenced files.  Have you come across
>>>>>> anything that does this?  I've turned up at least one candidate, but
>>> was
>>>>>> hoping for some more ideas.  I guess I can code/script something up,
>>> but
>>>>>> time isn't on my side. Especially if it has been done before.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want outputs like HTML, there are lots of templating tools -
>>>>> TemplateToolkit http://www.template-toolkit.org/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks, I'm looking for something that does just plain text.
>>>
>>> It can.