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:

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 := "welcome $HOME"
    str, err := envsubst.String(input)
    // ...
    buf, err := envsubst.Bytes([]byte(input))
    // ...
    buf, err := envsubst.ReadFile("filename")
}

Docs

api docs here:

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See also

• os.ExpandEnv(s string) string - only supports $var and ${var} notations

License

MIT