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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to declare variables once and reuse them in other scripts? Post 302494251 by moshe88 on Sunday 6th of February 2011 12:53:40 PM
Old 02-06-2011
Thanks Scott.
I just tried it and it seems to work.
Which is way simpler then i thought (:

so by typing . /(filename)
i add the content of the file to the script?
or what does . / exactly do?
 

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NAME
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GenerateFile - build a custom file from only the plugin configuration VERSION
version 4.300020 SYNOPSIS
In your dist.ini: [GenerateFile] filename = todo/master-plan.txt is_template = 1 content = # Outlines the plan for world domination by {{$dist->name}} content = content = Item 1: Think of an idea! content = Item 2: ? content = Item 3: Profit! DESCRIPTION
This plugin adds a file to the distribution. You can specify the content, as a sequence of lines, in your configuration. The specified content might be literal, or might be a Text::Template template. Templating of the content If you provide a "is_template" parameter of "1", The content will also be run through Text::Template. The variables $plugin and $dist will be provided, set to the GenerateFile plugin and the Dist::Zilla object respectively. ATTRIBUTES
filename This attribute names the file you want to generate. It is required. content The "content" attribute is an arrayref of lines that will be joined together with newlines to form the file content. is_template This attribute is a bool indicating whether or not the content should be treated as a Text::Template template. By default, it is false. AUTHOR
Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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