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)