Augeas (software)
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Augeas is a free software configuration-management library, written in the C programming language. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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Written in | C,[2] shell script,[2] LaTeX,[2] Cascading Style Sheets,[2] Automake,[2] Autoconf,[2] Vimscript,[2] Perl[2] |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Size | 1.8MB[3] |
Type | Configuration management |
License | GNU LGPL 2.1 or later |
Website | augeas.net |
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Augeas uses programs called lenses (in reference to the Harmony Project[4]) to map a filesystem to an XML tree which can then be parsed using an XPath syntax, using a bidirectional transformation. Writing such lenses extends the amount of files Augeas can parse.