| 1 | [Grunt homepage](https://github.com/cowboy/grunt) | [Documentation table of contents](toc.md)
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| 3 | # Helpers and Directives
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| 5 | ## Built-in Helpers
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| 6 | EXPLAIN
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| 8 | Take a look at the [built-in tasks source code](../tasks) for more examples.
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| 10 | ## Built-in Directives
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| 12 | * `<config:prop.subprop>` - expand to the `prop.subprop` config property. This can be any number of objects deep, `prop.subprop.otherprop.whatever` is totally valid. Great for DRYing up file lists.
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| 13 | * `<json:file.json>` - expand to the object parsed from file.json via [grunt.file.parseJSON](api_file.md).
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| 14 | * `<banner>` - the string in config property `meta.banner`, parsed via [grunt.template.process](api_template.md), using `<% %>` delimiters.
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| 15 | * `<banner:prop.subprop>` - same as above, but using a custom config property.
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| 16 | * `<file_strip_banner:file.js>` - expand to the given file, with any leading `/*...*/` banner stripped.
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| 18 | Take a look at the [api documentation](api.md) and [example gruntfiles](example_gruntfiles.md) for directive creation and usage examples.
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