Can the raw template be passed as an argument instead of as a file

[aleivag]

What i think it would be usefull is if we could do

> j2 --raw-templte '{{ USER }}'
aleivag

in many situation, specially when doing scripting its easier to construct templates on the fly and render them than to genrate them then save them to disk, and then render them ... this is specially true when dealing with RO filesystems ..

wdyt is this a good feature request/suggetsion?

[kpfleming]

Yes, this could be done, although it would definitely take some effort to figure out how to modify the command-line parser to handle it.

In the meantime, using mktemp is a fairly straightforward solution:

template=$(mktemp --suffix j2)
echo '{{ USER }}' > $template
j2 $template