IniEd

Command line .ini file editor.

Goals

This project has the following goals:

• Support for wide range of .ini file formats (e.g. both # and ; for comment).

• No unintended modifications. Lines that are not modified will be written without unnecessary corrections.

Usage

inied [OPTIONS] <file>

	Option	Value	Description
-s	--section	<section>	Section to show or replace
-k	--key	<key>	Key to show or replace
-p	--print		Show value only
-r	--print-raw		Value will not have quotes removed upon printing
-d	--delete		Specified entry or section will be deleted
-a	--append	<value>	Value will be appended
-c	--change	<value>	Value will be changed only if it exists
-e	--edit	<value>	Value will be changed if exists or added if it doesn't
	--pretty-print		Format output to look nicer
	--trim		Trim leading and trailing spaces
	--no-comments		Remove all comments
-i	--in-place		Writes content back to the same file after processing
-v	--verbose		Sets the level of verbosity
-h	--help		Prints help information
-V	--version		Prints version information
		[file]	File to process

Exit code	Description
0	Success
1	Input read error
2	Output write error
255	Argument error

Examples

Showing value

To show just the value, we need to specify --section, --key, and --print.

inied --section mysqld --key key_buffer --print  examples/my.cnf

Editing value

To edit key to a particular value, you need to specify --section, --key, and --edit. If value is not present it will be appended to the end of section.

inied --section mysqld --key key_buffer --edit 200M  examples/my.cnf

Changing value

To change key to a particular value, you need to specify --section, --key, and --change. If value is not present, nothing will happen.

inied --section mysqld --key key_buffer --edit 200M  examples/my.cnf

Appending value

To append key with a particular value, you need to specify --section, --key, and --append. Value will be appended to the end of section.

inied --section mysqld --key key_buffer --edit 200M  examples/my.cnf

Deleting key

To delete the key, one has to specify --section, key, and --delete.

inied --section mysqld --key key_buffer --delete  examples/my.cnf

Deleting section

To delete the whole section, one has to specify only --section and --delete.

inied --section mysqld --delete  examples/my.cnf

Showing section

To show a single section, one has to specify only --section.

inied --section mysqld  examples/my.cnf

Pretty print

To clean up output, one can use --pretty-print.

inied --pretty-print  examples/my.cnf

Removing comments

To remove all comments, one can use --no-comments.

inied --no-comments  examples/my.cnf

In-place changes

To do all those changes directly to a file, one can use --in-place.

inied --pretty-print --in-place  examples/my.cnf

Chaining calls

As inied supports reading from standard input and writing to standard output, multiple calls can be chained together.

inied --section mysqld examples/my.cnf | inied --key key_buffer | inied --print