Bug#655712: ITP: template -- environment variable expander | simple template tool

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

Michael Stummvoll <michael@stummi.org> writes:

> On 13.01.2012 16:14, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> (By the way, you can abuse /usr/share/dh-exec/dh-exec-subst-env,
>> which does just that, and is part of the dh-exec package, if you
>> don't want to put it in a script in ~/bin or something. ;) 
> ah, thanks. Thats what I looked for. So, the tool isn't too simple, as
> some people said, just its function is still provided by another tool
> (where nobody could point me yet), so i think the ITP can be closed

It IS dead simple. One line of perl, and not even a complex one.

It just so happens that dh-exec, out of pure coincidence, provides a
tool that runs that single line exactly the way you want to.

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