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IniDiffUtils

Compares, patches and filters INI files

IniDiffUtils is a package of Perl utilities that compares, patches and filters INI files.

It works much as the GNU diffutils package works, but takes the INI structure of section, key and values into account.

IniDiffUtils is a fork of Michael Rendell's wonderful and unique Regutils package, the latest version of which is maintained here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/regutils

IniDiffUtils is now on GitHub (since April 2019), the library has been moved to github here:
https://github.com/jeremysquires/App-IniDiff

It was also cleaned up and published to CPAN here: https://metacpan.org/pod/App::IniDiff::IniFile

Regutils was originally available (last version 0.10) here: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/regutils.

The Windows registry functions are missing from IniDiffUtils as other packages provide better and more modern registry access, but support for diff and patch of registry dumps will be maintained.

Features:

  • Compare INI files accurately regardless of the ordering of sections and settings.
  • Creates editable INI file patches and applies these patches to other INIs.
  • Allows filtering (inclusion and exclusion) of INI and patch settings.
  • Command line execution for automation.

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