DIG ini-editor

Simple command line INI editor.

• Get list of sections
• Get list of keys from section
• Get value of key from section
• Add/Edit value of key from section
• Delete key from section
• Delete entire section
• Check if section exists
• Check if section and key exists

By default, all output will be written into stdout. It can be changed with option --output FILENAME or --in-place wich will use the input file as output.

The input filename "-" is reserved to read from stdin (cat file.ini | ini-editor ACTION - …)

Usage

python -m dig_ini_editor ACTION

or

ini-editor ACTION

ACTION must be one of:

• get

ini-editor get filename [section [key]]

• If section is not set, will return a list of sections.
• If key is not set, will return a list of keys from section.
• Otherwise will return the value of key from section.

• set

ini-editor set filename section key value

Will add or replace, with value, the value of key from section.

• delete

ini-editor delete filename section [key]

• If key is not set, will remove entire section.
• Otherwise will remove only the key from section.

• exists

ini-editor exists filename section [key]

Will return "true" and exit code 0 if the condition is satisfied, otherwise return "false" and exit code non-zero.

• If key is not set, will only check if section exists.

Installation

From PyPI (preferred):

python -m pip install dig-ini-editor

From github release:

python -m pip install "https://github.com/DIG-/python-ini-editor/releases/download/1.0.1/dig_ini_editor-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl"

or

python -m pip install "https://github.com/DIG-/python-ini-editor/releases/download/1.0.1/dig_ini_editor.tar.gz"

From github main branch:

python -m pip install "git+https://github.com/DIG-/python-ini-editor.git@master#egg=dig_git_ignore"

License

CC BY-ND 4.0

• You can use and redist freely.
• You can also modify, but only for yourself.
• You can use it as a part of your project, but without modifications in this project.