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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 							CHEETAH(1)