Easy automated editing of /etc/files with Augeas

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 12, 2008 7:57 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Ben Martin
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The days of parsing configuration files with awk and making quick changes to configuration files with ad-hoc scripts may finally be at an end. With Augeas you can forget about the parsing and focus completely on what settings must be changed. So if the configuration file moves a piece of data to the fourth column, you don't need to care; Augeas will still show it to you as it did before.

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