From: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to use a variable in a plain-file object?
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 20:39:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZkZS-qKQNJsUt74A@ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87le493g1o.fsf@xelera.eu>
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On 2024-05-16 17:57:55 +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> sorry for the very guile-absolute-beginner question, but I'd like to use
> a declared variable in a plain-file object, so I can write something
> like in this pseudo-code snippet:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> (define variable1 "var1-value")
> (define variable2 "var2-value")
>
> [...]
>
> (define %my-file-object
> ,(plain-file "something.conf" "
> # This is an example configuration file
>
> attribute1 =" variable1 "
>
> attribute2 =" variable2 "
>
> "))
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and obtain a "something.conf" file like this:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> # This is an example configuration file
>
> attribute1 = var1-value
>
> attribute2 = var2-value
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> how can I do, please?
I believe you can use mixed-text-file for this purpose:
/tmp/xx.scm:
(use-modules (guix gexp))
(define var1 "var1-value")
(define var2 "var2-value")
(define %my-file-object
(mixed-text-file "something.conf" "\
# This is an example configuration file
attribute1 = " var1 "
attribute2 = " var2 "
"))
%my-file-object
When I build it and inspect the result:
$ cat $(guix build -e '(load "/tmp/xx.scm")')
# This is an example configuration file
attribute1 = var1-value
attribute2 = var2-value
The mixed-text-file accepts string *and* file-like objects as arguments. That
makes it very suitable for constructing configuration files, since you can
expand paths, for example like this:
/tmp/yy.scm:
(use-modules (gnu packages base)
(guix gexp))
(define %my-file-object
(mixed-text-file "something.conf" "\
SED_PATH = " sed "/bin/sed
"))
%my-file-object
And here is the result:
$ cat $(guix build -e '(load "/tmp/yy.scm")')
SED_PATH = /gnu/store/6kkygybkxkzqy3lf6k5kzimk5mjasrvw-sed-4.8/bin/sed
Hope this is useful and have a nice day,
Tomas Volf
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2024-05-16 15:57 how to use a variable in a plain-file object? Giovanni Biscuolo
2024-05-16 16:15 ` raingloom
2024-05-17 8:45 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2024-05-16 18:39 ` Tomas Volf [this message]
2024-05-17 8:24 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
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