Install “crudini” Package on Ubuntu

Crudini is a utility to simplify reading and updating ini files from shell scripts, so named as it provides CRUD functionality. It can handle most variants of ini.

Homepage: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/crudini/

Quick Install Instructions of crudini on Ubuntu Server. It’s Super Easy!

See below for quick step by step instructions of SSH commands

Install

Step 1: Run update command to update package repositories and get latest package information.

sudo apt-get update -y

Step 2: Install Crudini

Run the install command with -y flag to quickly install the packages and dependencies.

sudo apt-get install -y crudini

Interfaces synopsis

crudini --set [--existing] config_file section [param] [value]
        --get [--format=sh|ini|lines] config_file [section] [param]
        --del [--existing] config_file section [param] [list value]
        --merge [--existing] config_file [section]

Examples

• Add/Update a var
  crudini –set config_file section parameter value
• Update an existing var
  crudini –set –existing config_file section parameter value
• Add/Append a value to a space or comma separated list
  crudini –set –list config_file section parameter a_value
• update an ini file from shell variable(s)
  echo name=”$name” | crudini –merge config_file section
• merge an ini file from another ini
  crudini –merge config_file < another.ini

• Delete a var
  crudini –del config_file section parameter
• Delete a section
  crudini –del config_file section

• output a value
  crudini –get config_file section parameter
• output a global value not in a section
  crudini –get config_file ” parameter
• output a section
  crudini –get config_file section
• output a section, parseable by shell
  eval $(crudini –get –format=sh config_file section)
• output an ini processable by text utils
  crudini –get –format=lines config_file