[ale] Text compiler

[Calvin Harrigan]

Thank you all for your input.  I eventually rolled my own.  But I now 
have a list of tools that I can use for similar purposes.


On 10/12/2015 10:52 AM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> The puppetlabs-concat module on the Forge appears to satisfy your 
> needs nicely.
>
> https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/concat
>
>
>
> ---
> Jerald M. Sheets jr.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 11:11 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com 
> <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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.
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