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NAME

       cheetah - Python template command-line tool

SYNOPSIS

       cheetah, cheetah-compile

       cheetah COMMAND [options] FILE...
       cheetah-compile [options] FILE...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the cheetah command-line tool.  This
       manual page  was  written  for  the  Debian  distribution  because  the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       cheetah  is a Python-powered template engine and code generator. It can
       be used as a standalone utility or it can be combined with other tools.
       Cheetah  has  many  potential  uses,  but  web developers looking for a
       viable alternative to ASP, JSP, PHP and PSP  are  expected  to  be  its
       principle user group.

       The  cheetah command-line tool is the standalone utility portion of the
       software suite.  cheetah-compile is a convenience script that  for  the
       "cheetah  compile  ..."  command.  The utility accepts a single command
       possible options and a list of files.  If FILE is a  single  "-",  read
       standard input and write standard output.

COMMANDS

       The  possible cheetah commands are listed below. You may abbreviate the
       command to the first letter; e.g., ’h’ == ’help’.

       compile
              Compile template definitions

       fill   Fill template definitions

       help   Print commands help message

       options
              Print options help message for compile and fill commands

       test   Run regression tests

       version
              Print version number

OPTIONS

       The options for cheetah apply to  the  compile  and  fill  commands.  A
       summary of options is included below.

       --idir DIR
              Input directories(default: current dir)

       --odir ODIR
              Output directories (default: current dir)

       --iext IEXT
              Input  extension.   The  default  input  extension  for both the
              compile and fill commands is "tmpl".

       --oext OEXT
              Output extension.  The default output extension for the  compile
              command  is  "py".   The  default  output  extension for fill is
              "html".

       -R     Recurse subdirectories looking for input files

       --debug
              Print lots of diagnostic  output  to  the  standard  error  file
              descriptor

       --env  Print the environment in the searchList

       --flat No destination subdirectories

       --nobackup
              Do not make backups

       --pickle FILE
              unpickle FILE and put that output in the searchList

       --stdout, -p
              Output to standard output file descriptor (pipe)

SEE ALSO

       pydoc(1)
       The   programs   are   documented   fully   on   the   project  website
       http://cheetahtemplate.sourceforge.net.  You can also browse the Python
       library  files  and  their docstring descriptions by using the standard
       pydoc utility.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Chad C.  Walstrom  <chewie@debian.org>,
       for the Debian project and is dedicated to the Public Domain.

                                  2005 Apr 04