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)