Perl script template

template.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl 

# Copyright 2019 Magnus Enger Libriotech

=head1 NAME

my_script.pl - Short description.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 perl my_script.pl -v
 
=cut

use Getopt::Long;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
use Template;
use DateTime;
use YAML::Syck;
use Pod::Usage;
use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
use Modern::Perl;
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";

# Use a Util.pm located in a "lib" subdir of the dir the script is in
use FindBin qw( $Bin );
use lib "$Bin/lib";
use Util;

say BOLD, BLUE, "This text is in bold blue", RESET;

my $dt = DateTime->now;
my $date = $dt->ymd;

# Get options
my ( $configfile, $input_file, $limit, $verbose, $debug ) = get_options();

# Get the config from file and add verbose and debug to it
if ( !-e $configfile ) { die "The file $configfile does not exist..."; }
my $config = LoadFile( $configfile );
$config->{'verbose'} = $verbose;
$config->{'debug'}   = $debug;

# Log to a file
my $log_file = 'myscript.log';
open( LOG, '>>', $log_file ) or die "Could not open file '$log_file' $!";
say LOG "My first report generated by perl";
close LOG;

# Check that the file exists
if ( !-e $input_file ) {
    print "The file $input_file does not exist...\n";
    exit;
}

# Configure Template Toolkit
my $outfile = 'data.txt';
my $ttconfig = {
    INCLUDE_PATH => '', 
    ENCODING => 'utf8'  # ensure correct encoding
};
# create Template object
my $tt2 = Template->new( $ttconfig ) || die Template->error(), "\n";

$tt2->process( $template, $vars, $outfile, { binmode => ":utf8" } ) || die $tt2->error();

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=item B<-c, --configfile>

Path to config file in YAML format.

=item B<-i, --infile>

Name of input file.

=item B<-l, --limit>

Only process the n first somethings.

=item B<-v --verbose>

More verbose output.

=item B<-d --debug>

Even more verbose output.

=item B<-h, -?, --help>

Prints this help message and exits.

=back

=cut

sub get_options {

    # Options
    my $configfile = '';
    my $input_file = '';
    my $limit      = '';
    my $verbose    = '';
    my $debug      = '';
    my $help       = '';

    GetOptions (
        'c|configfile=s' => \$configfile,
        'i|infile=s'     => \$input_file,
        'l|limit=i'      => \$limit,
        'v|verbose'      => \$verbose,
        'd|debug'        => \$debug,
        'h|?|help'       => \$help
    );

    pod2usage( -exitval => 0 ) if $help;
    pod2usage( -msg => "\nMissing Argument: -c, --configfile required\n", -exitval => 1 ) if !$configfile;
    pod2usage( -msg => "\nMissing Argument: -i, --infile required\n", -exitval => 1 ) if !$input_file;

    return ( $configfile, $input_file, $limit, $verbose, $debug );

}

=head1 AUTHOR

Magnus Enger, <magnus [at] libriotech.no>

=head1 LICENSE

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

=cut