Envinject

Envinject is just a small utility to replace all the environment variables found in a text file with their values.

Usage

Let's suppose you have an environment variable called server and you want to include its value in several places inside a text file. Simply write the name of the environment variable starting with $ and run envinject:

envinject file.txt

All the occurrences with be replace with the variable's value.

If you want to scape the $ character, simply repeat it: $$.

Considerations

The reason I wrote this small utility is because there are many situations in which you want to include a password inside a configuration file you are going to deploy, but you don't want that password to end up being committed to your repository. A popular solution is to store that password in an environment variable and then, make another program read it. Sometimes you must include its value inside a text file and then is when this small utility can come in handy.