NAME

       mason.pl - evaluate a mason template and output the result

SYNOPSIS

          # Evaluate template from STDIN
          mason.pl [mason options] [--args json-string]

          # Evaluate template in string
          mason.pl [mason options] [--args json-string] -e "string"

          # Evaluate template in file
          mason.pl [mason options] [--args json-string] template-file

DESCRIPTION

       Reads a Mason template (component) from STDIN, a string, or a file. Runs the template and outputs the
       result to STDOUT.

MASON OPTIONS

       The following Mason options can be specified on the command line:

           --data-dir /path/to/data_dir
           --plugins MyPlugin,MyOtherPlugin

       The "comp_root" will be set to the directory of the template file or to a temporary directory if using
       STDIN. If not specified "data_dir" will be set to a temporary directory.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

       --args json-string
           A hash of arguments to pass to the page component, in JSON form. e.g.

               --args '{"count":5,"names":["Alice","Bob"]}'

SEE ALSO

       Mason

AUTHOR

       Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Jonathan Swartz.

       This  is  free  software;  you  can  redistribute  it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.

AUTHOR

       Jonathan Swartz <swartz@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Jonathan Swartz.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  the  Perl  5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.34.0                                       2022-05-27                                          MASON(1p)