envsubst
Environment variables substitution for Go. see docs below
Installation:
From binaries
Latest stable envsubst prebuilt binaries for 64-bit Linux, or Mac OS X are available via Github releases.
Linux and MacOS
curl -L https://github.com/a8m/envsubst/releases/download/v1.2.0/envsubst-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o envsubst
chmod +x envsubst
sudo mv envsubst /usr/local/bin
Windows
Download the latest prebuilt binary from releases page, or if you have curl installed:
curl -L https://github.com/a8m/envsubst/releases/download/v1.2.0/envsubst.exe
With go
You can install via go get (provided you have installed go):
go get github.com/a8m/envsubst/cmd/envsubst
Using via cli
envsubst < input.tmpl > output.text
echo 'welcome $HOME ${USER:=a8m}', envsubst
envsubst -help
Imposing restrictions
There are three command line flags with which you can cause the substitution to stop with an error code, should the restriction associated with the flag not be met. This can be handy if you want to avoid creating e.g. configuration files with unset or empty parameters.
Setting a -fail-fast flag in conjunction with either no-unset or no-empty or both will result in a faster feedback loop, this can be especially useful when running through a large file or byte array input, otherwise a list of errors is returned.
The flags and their restrictions are:, Option, Meaning, Type, Default, ------------, --------------, ------------, ------------, -i, input file, string, stdin, stdin, -o, output file, string, stdout, stdout, -no-unset, fail if a variable is not set, flag, false, -no-empty, fail if a variable is set but empty, flag, false, -fail-fast, fails at first occurence of an error, if -no-empty or -no-unset flags were not specified this is ignored, flag, false
These flags can be combined to form tighter restrictions.
Using envsubst programmatically ?
You can take a look on _example/main or see the example below.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/a8m/envsubst"
)
func main() {
input := "welcom $HOME"
str, err := envsubst.String(input)
// ...
buf, err := envsubst.Bytes([]byte(input))
// ...
buf, err := envsubst.ReadFile("filename")
}
Docs
api docs here:
${var}, Value of var (same as$var),${var-$DEFAULT}, If var not set, evaluate expression as $DEFAULT,${var:-$DEFAULT}, If var not set or is empty, evaluate expression as $DEFAULT,${var=$DEFAULT}, If var not set, evaluate expression as $DEFAULT,${var:=$DEFAULT}, If var not set or is empty, evaluate expression as $DEFAULT,${var+$OTHER}, If var set, evaluate expression as $OTHER, otherwise as empty string,${var:+$OTHER}, If var set, evaluate expression as $OTHER, otherwise as empty string,$$var, Escape expressions. Result will be$var.
Most of the rows in this table were taken from here
See also
os.ExpandEnv(s string) string- only supports$varand${var}notations
License
MIT