potoroo

A preprocessor for scripts or any other text file.

exapmles

See processor test potorooJobs and processor test src

cli arguments

potoroo [-jf FILE] [--force-jf]
potoroo -if FILE (-od DIR | -of FILE) [-t TAG] [options]

arg	description
-jf FILE	Specify a jobfile
--force-jf	Force jobfile to be processed even if errors occured while parsing it
-if FILE	Input file
-of FILE	Output file
-od DIR	Output directory (same filename)
-t TAG	Specify the tag

option	description
-Werror	Handles warnings as errors (only in processor, the jobfile parser is unaffected by this option). Results in not writing the output file if any warning occured.
--copy	Copy, replaces the existing file only if it is older than the input file
--copy-ow	Copy, overwrites the existing file

If no parameter or only --force-jf is provided the default jobfile ./potorooJobs is processed.

jobfile

Each line is interpreted as a job. Paths in the jobfile are relative to its containing directory.

# comments are possible
-if ./index.js -od ./deploy/
-if ./code.abc -od ./deploy/ -tag cpp

tags (-t TAG)

TAG	tag string in file
cpp	//#p
bash	#//p
batch	@rem #p
custom:CTAG	CTAG

preprocessor key words

rm

//#p rm
deletes lines in between
these tags and
the tags themselves
//#p endrm

rmn

//#p rmn n

Deletes n lines after this tag and the tag itself. n = 1..9

ins

//#p ins c = Math.sqrt(a*a + b*b);

Removes the tag wich results in adding a single line of code.

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License

GNU GPL v3

Copyright (C) 2021 Oliver Blaser

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.