uebersetzer

uebersetzer is a daemon written in Rust that manages your configuration files' parameters according to your environment, using Tera templates that you define.

Motivation

I wanted my dotfiles to reference environment variables for a consistent style across my desktop, so that a single change in my .env file propagates to every config that uses those variables.

Features

• Universal: works on any file in your config
• Configurable: edit uebersetzer.toml
• Capable templating engine: thanks to Tera

preparing ueber files

For each file containing .ueber under config_path, uebersetzer writes the rendered output to the same path with the .ueber extension removed.
For example, config.ueber.yaml -> config.yaml.

1. copy config files and add ueber extension (example: config.yaml -> config.yaml.ueber)
2. set env variable placeholders as {{ var_name }} in the new ueber file

Configuration

Configuration is done by editing uebersetzer.toml. The file is searched under XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.

cp uebersetzer.default.toml ~/.config/uebersetzer.toml

Note

• If the target file already exists, uebersetzer skips it by default. Set force_write = true to replace existing target files.

• Set recursive = true to search in all files unders config_path