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Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in
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their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration
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changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into
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native config files.
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Augeas is:
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- An API provided by a C library
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- A command line tool to manipulate configuration from the shell (and
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shell scripts)
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- Language bindings to do the same from your favorite scripting language
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- Canonical tree representations of common configuration files
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- A domain-specific language to describe configuration file formats
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Augeas goals:
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- Manipulate configuration files safely, safer than the ad-hoc
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techniques generally used with grep, sed, awk and similar mechanisms
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in scripting languages
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- Provide a local configuration API for Linux
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- Make it easy to integrate new config files into the Augeas tree
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