puppet-doc-from-vars.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This is a quick hack to try and extract variables from puppet file 
# and prints out a doc string, only works if the parameters are only
# have 2 spaces in front
egrep '^  \$(.*)\s+=\s+(.*)$' file.pp | \
 sed -e 's/^  \$\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\).*= \(.*\)$/#  [*\1*]=#    Default value is \2/g' | \
 tr "=" "\n"

egrep '  \$(.​*)\s+=\s+(.*​)$' firewall.pp  | sed -e 's/^  \$\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\).​*= \(.*\)$/#  [*\1*​]=#    String. Port for \1=#    Default value is \2=#/g' | tr "=" "\n"