batchConfig

Prepare batch of bash scripts.

batchConfig generate scripts by useing the information in json and tsv files to replace the placeholder in the template file.

Install

batchConfig is a Raku script, in order to run it, the Raku intepreter should be installed first. Install Raku interpreter.

Install the dependances:

zef install Template::Mustache JSON::Hjson CSV::Parser

Create the template, then use {{variable_name}} to write the variable need to replace in a Mustache template manner.

Prepare the config.json

{
    variable1_name: "variable1_value",
    variable1_name: "variable1_value",
}

batchConfig -c bar.template will create a json file config.temp.json as a template with all the variables need to be replace in bar.template.

Prepare the config.tsv

job_name  variable2_name
variable1_value1    variable2_value1
variable1_value2    variable2_value2

Each row correspond to one script. The colnames job_name is special, since it will be the name of the new file.

Generate Scripts

batchConfig -j="config.json" -t="config.tsv" -o="output_dir" template.txt

The script will create a fold named output_dir contained the output files.