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Prebyte CLI Wiki

Prebyte is the command-line tool for the Prebyte templating engine. It renders .pbt templates, manages settings and profiles, and packages releases.

The template language, builtins, Lua, rules, and embed APIs are documented in the prebyte-engine wiki.

Pages

  1. Installation
  2. CLI

Quick start

prebyte input.txt
prebyte input.txt -o output.txt -Dname=Ada
cat input.txt | prebyte
Hello {{ name }}
prebyte greeting.pbt -Dgreeting=World

Where to read next

Topic Wiki
Commands, flags, profiles CLI
Build from source, Docker, releases Installation
Template syntax, Lua, builtins prebyte-engine wiki
C++ / C embed APIs prebyte-engine C++ API

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