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+> [!IMPORTANT] I am not working on  this script any longer. Please use
+> [gosubst](https://codeberg.org/scip/gosubst)  instead.  It  supports
+> most of  the features  beside the perlisms,  which are  rarely being
+> used anyway.
+
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 ## subst - commandline tool to replace file contents or file names