[Eclug] INI-style configuration file manipulation

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  • David A. Desrosiers desrod at gnu-designs.com
    Fri Aug 25 12:55:34 EDT 2006

     

    On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 12:17 -0400, Berend Tober wrote:
    > I wanted to ask if there are any ready-made, free, or built-in bash 
    > tools or utilities for scripting manipulation of configuration file 
    > settings -- you know, the kind of file that is ubiquitous in Linux 
    > whereby "key = value" pairs are specified. Did a brief Google search
    > and didn't readily find anything suitable. Maybe I didn't use the
    > right search keywords. 
    
    Use the chainsaw! 
    
    Config::IniFiles
    http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-IniFiles/IniFiles.pm
    
    Config::General
    http://search.cpan.org/~tlinden/Config-General-2.31/General.pm
    
    Config::INI::Simple
    http://search.cpan.org/~kirsle/Config-INI-Simple-0.01/lib/Config/INI/Simple.pm
    
    I use the top two in production code, and they work great. 
    
    
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    David A. Desrosiers
    desrod gnu-designs com
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