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`	object	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`	object	The information from `/etc/os-release`, Linux only, run `chezmoi data` to see its output
`.chezmoi.pathListSeparator`	string	The path list separator, typically `;` on Windows and `:` on other systems. Used to separate paths in environment variables. ie `/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin`
`.chezmoi.pathSeparator`	string	The path separator, typically `\` on windows and `/` on unix. Used to separate files and directories in a path. ie `c:\see\dos\run`
`.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.