cookie-cutter needs the variable COOKIE_CUTTER_ROOT
to be defined in its execution environment.
In a Bourne or Korne derived shell (sh, ksh,
bash, zsh), define it as follows:
[user@hostname cookie-cutter]$ COOKIE_CUTTER_ROOT=/path/to/cookie-cutter [user@hostname cookie-cutter]$ export COOKIE_CUTTER_ROOT
Be sure to record the environment variable into a persistent configuration file: /etc/profile, .profile, .bash_profile ... depending on your installation and shell. To test your configuration, execute the cookie-cutter command at your shell prompt:
[user@hostname cookie-cutter]$ pwd /path/to/cookie-cutter/bin [user@hostname cookie-cutter]$ ./cookie-cutterIf cookie-cutter complains without printing its usage on the terminal, it's probably the
COOKIE_CUTTER_ROOT
variable which is not correctly set.