Set Site.Params from the command line

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I’d like to know if it is possible to set a Site.Params value from the command line.

The reason: I have a version number for my software which I would like to include into the hugo generated documentation (see https://doc.speedata.de/publisher/de/ at the top).

If it is not possible to set a value for Site.Params: is there an alternative approach? I have tried to override the parameter with an environment variable, but I ran into the same issues as discussed in How to access config [params] map from command line.

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I just use sed (on GNU/Linux, Mac and *nix systems).

If you have this in config.toml:

[params]
foo = 1

And you want to change the foo variable, do:

sed -i.bkp 's/foo =.*/foo = "NEW VAL"/' config.toml

sed and such are a lost art worth learning even for web dev.

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Thanks, @kaushalmodi

the sed approach has the side effect that the file changes from the version control’s view (although there are mechanisms to ignore the change etc.)

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I’d actually do that on the CI/CD itself, e.g. Netlify command parameter.

You can also choose to do that AND have multiple config files:

… keep a main config file that you version control, and another that you don’t, that you create/modify on the fly (You would do the same on CI/CD too; the benefit being that you don’t need to alter-then-restore the main config file before committing.)