Re: Date in a boilerplate file

On 2020-06-28, Guido Milanese wrote:

> Il giorno sab 27 giu 2020 alle ore 16:43 Mateusz Okulus ha
> scritto:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 09:56:34AM -0700, Guido Milanese wrote:
> > In a project I am developing, I have written some boilerplate files to be
> > used as headers for Markdown/LaTeX documents. One of the lines contains
> the
> > document date, and ideally it should be:
> >
> > date: <TODAY>
>
> I think it's easier to use unix tools instead of vim for this.
>
> sed "s/<TODAY>/$(date)/g" [file]...
>
> You can specify multiple files, and make changes permanent
> with -i flag.

> Thank you. I was indeed considering something like this -- perhaps a srot of
> "preprocessing" of the file.

What I used to do was embed my boilerplate text as a here-document
in a shell script which the script cat'ed into a pipeline of sed
and/or awk scripts to add the date, author name, etc. Then I just
sourced the output of that script into Vim with a ":r!" command.
That kept everything in one file.

The only reason I no longer do that is that my recent jobs haven't
required the creation of a lot of new files with a common
boilerplate format.

Regards,
Gary

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