• command line tools to read and write ini files easily and quickly (i.e. in scripts).

• buildmsg - The ini-tools Makefile uses the buildmsg script from quantum-utils.
  In order to build this project, you must have buildmsg in your $PATH.

• A modified version of minIni 1.2b is used to process the ini files. It is included in the src/ directory.

• Note: the source of minIni has been modified slightly; replacing the src/minIni.* files may break functionality.

first, make sure buildmsg is installed, or remove the buildmsg lines from the Makefile.

1. make minIni to build the minIni library - builds src/minIni.o

2. run any of: + make all + nake ini-read + nake ini-write

• The Makefile will automatically generate src/build-date.h when building any ini-tools project, which adds the build date to the --version output.

• By default, the compiled binaries will be output to build/.

• make install moves the compiled binaries to HOME/scripts, by default. Either add this path to your $PATH or modify the Makefile to install to another location.

• Specify the ini filename as "-" to read/write to stdin/out.

test.ini

[Last]
key1=yes
newkey2=myvalue
key3=test value
[First]
newkey3=myvalue

• ini-read Last key3 test.ini | read key3 value from section Last
• ini-read --dump test.ini | dump ini contents from test.ini
• ini-read --dump test.ini Last | dump section Last keys from test.ini
• cat test.ini | ini-read --dump - | dump ini contents, reading ini file from stdin

ini-write Last key4 "new key" test.ini | write key4 with a value of "new key" to section Last.