TPAGE(1p)

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✨ NAME ✨

Template::Tools::tpage — aka tpage, the little command-line bestie that processes templates for you 💖 (it lives in the Perl docs, under "User Contributed Perl Documentation", iykyk)

🎀 USAGE 🎀

tpage [ --define var=value ] file(s)

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so listen. tpage is literally just a simple wrapper around the Template Toolkit processor. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she's small but she works 💅

you name some files on the command line and they get processed in turn by the template processor, and the resulting output goes straight to STDOUT — so you can redirect it wherever you want, no cap. like:

tpage myfile > myfile.out
tpage header myfile footer > myfile.html
🦋 note bestie: that second one? you're literally gluing a header, a main file, and a footer together. iconic behaviour.

and if you give her no file names at all, she doesn't sulk — she just reads STDIN for input instead. adaptable queen 👑

the --define option is how you set the values of your template variables, fr fr. e.g.

tpage --define author="Andy Wardley" skeleton.pm > MyModule.pm

🌸 The .tpagerc Configuration File 🌸

you can have a .tpagerc file chillin' in your home directory 💖

her whole purpose? setting any global configuration options that you want applied every single time tpage runs. like, for example, you can use the include_path to pull template files from a generic template directory. set it once, forget it, main character energy ✨

run tpage -h for a summary of the options available — yes she has a help flag, go look 👀

also, peep Template for general info about the Perl Template Toolkit and the template language and all its features 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>

<http://wardley.org/>

⭐ VERSION ⭐

2.68, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.19, released on 27 April 2007.

  Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay 💚

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • ttree

and that's the whole page babes — she's TPAGE(1p), built from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20 🌈 go process some templates and eat, periodt 💖✨

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