Variables

chezmoi provides the following automatically-populated variables:

Variable	Type	Value
.chezmoi.arch	string	Architecture, e.g. amd64, arm, etc. as returned by runtime.GOARCH
.chezmoi.args	[]string	The arguments passed to the chezmoi command, starting with the program command
.chezmoi.cacheDir	string	The cache directory
.chezmoi.config	object	The configuration, as read from the config file
.chezmoi.configFile	string	The path to the configuration file used by chezmoi
.chezmoi.executable	string	The path to the chezmoi executable, if available
.chezmoi.fqdnHostname	string	The fully-qualified domain name hostname of the machine chezmoi is running on
.chezmoi.gid	string	The primary group ID
.chezmoi.group	string	The group of the user running chezmoi
.chezmoi.homeDir	string	The home directory of the user running chezmoi
.chezmoi.hostname	string	The hostname of the machine chezmoi is running on, up to the first .
.chezmoi.kernel	string	Contains information from /proc/sys/kernel. Linux only, useful for detecting specific kernels (e.g. Microsoft's WSL kernel)
.chezmoi.os	string	Operating system, e.g. darwin, linux, etc. as returned by runtime.GOOS
.chezmoi.osRelease	string	The information from /etc/os-release, Linux only, run chezmoi data to see its output
.chezmoi.sourceDir	string	The source directory
.chezmoi.sourceFile	string	The path of the template relative to the source directory
.chezmoi.targetFile	string	The absolute path of the target file for the template
.chezmoi.uid	string	The user ID
.chezmoi.username	string	The username of the user running chezmoi
.chezmoi.version.builtBy	string	The program that built the chezmoi executable, if set
.chezmoi.version.commit	string	The git commit at which the chezmoi executable was built, if set
.chezmoi.version.date	string	The timestamp at which the chezmoi executable was built, if set
.chezmoi.version.version	string	The version of chezmoi
.chezmoi.windowsVersion	object	Windows version information, if running on Windows
.chezmoi.workingTree	string	The working tree of the source directory

.chezmoi.windowsVersion contains the following keys populated from the registry key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion.

Key	Type
currentBuild	string
currentMajorVersionNumber	integer
currentMinorVersionNumber	integer
currentVersion	string
displayVersion	string
editionID	string
productName	string

Additional variables can be defined in the config file in the data section. Variable names must consist of a letter and be followed by zero or more letters and/or digits.