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-cat << eof
-
-Hey hackers,
-
-this README is for you, for those who want to dig into cdist, hack it or try
-to get a deeper understanding. Please read doc/man/man7/cdist-hacker.text.
-
-I hope you have a lot of fun with cdist, because it was also a lot of fun to
-develop it!
-
-   -- Nico, 20110324
-
-## Running cdist when developing
-
-This file is suitable for execution and saving the objects and
-explorers from cdist. I usually do it like this:
-
-   % ./HACKERS_README
-
-################################################################################
-eof
-
-set -x
-# Tell the user what we do, so this script makes sense during execution
-
-# prepare use (only from top level directory)
-export PATH="$(pwd -P)/bin:$PATH"
-export __cdist_conf_dir="$(pwd -P)/conf"
-
-# Allow user to supply hostname
-target="${1:-localhost}"
-
-# And use hostname as basedir (dangerous, but hackers know what they do)
-export __cdist_local_base_dir="/tmp/$target"
-
-# Run the real script
-cdist-deploy-to "$target"
-
-# Display results
-find "${__cdist_local_base_dir}"