On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:56, Neal D. Becker wrote: > Neal D. Becker wrote: > > > Yes, here's the linux registry topic again. This project looks > > interesting. Any comments? > > > > http://registry.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > One motivation that I didn't hear anyone mention: > > It is difficult to add entries/edit a flat file. ^^^Bingo !!! Somebody else hits the nail on the head Hence the need for "A COMMON API FOR MANIPULATING TEXT IN FLAT FILES" I've written a utility in plain'Ol C. Its got two functions for reading and writing flat file config files and a utility that uses them. I'm not suggesting this become a standard, but something like it should exist in the core libs?? This is the same type of code I see done over and over again because its missing from the core API for Unix. My util.... ******** [root@localhost onsight-utils]# readwriteconfig readwriteconfig -r filename variable readwriteconfig -w filename variable=value Examples: readwriteconfig -w /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 IPADDR=192.168.1.113 Writing will return a single character A=appended C=Changed N=File to large. Reading will return the variables value only or nothing if the string is not found [root@localhost onsight-utils]#
