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rpt is a command line utility that recursively replaces placeholders in a text document with text represented by the placeholders.
Placeholders are embedded in a source document and rpt processes that document, replacing all placeholders with their values and writes the result out to a different file. The names of the files are passed to rpt on the command line.
We said rpt is "recursive". What that means is that the text that rpt uses to replace a placeholder can itself contain further placeholders. Replacement of placeholders continues recursively until all placeholders have been replaced.
Placeholders are resolved at run time. Their values can be defined in a file, set from environment variables, defined on the command line or be generated by a built in commands. Values can be further processed using built in filter functions.