App-IniDiff App-IniDiff is a package of Perl utilities that compares, patches and filters INI files. It works much as the GNU diffutils package works, but taking the INI structure of section, key and values into account. Originally Developed by Michael Rendell, Memorial University of Newfoundland as part of the regutils package, for maintaining Win95 diskless workstations, which is still available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/regutils/ App-IniDiff can be used to help in managing INI configuration files. The utilities can be used to apply changes to INIs as needed. They can also be used to identify and correct similarities and differences between configurations. These may be helpful in debug situations or when consistency or differences need to be maintained. The package contains the following programs: inicat - cat ini files to standard output. inidiff - generate the differences between two ini files. iniedit - edit (or patch) a ini file. inifilter - filter an ini file by making substitutions and deletions to keys and entries. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: (on Windows, use Strawberry gmake instead of cygwin make) perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Alternatively use the CPAN.pm module: # perl -MCPAN -e 'install App::IniDiff' Or the newer CPANPLUS.pm module # perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install App::IniDiff' SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc App::IniDiff::IniFile perldoc inicat perldoc inidiff perldoc iniedit perldoc inifilter You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here) https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=App-IniDiff AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/App-IniDiff CPAN Ratings https://cpanratings.perl.org/d/App-IniDiff Search CPAN https://metacpan.org/release/App-IniDiff LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT This software is Copyright (C) 1998 Memorial University of Newfoundland This is free software, licensed under: The GNU General Public License, Version 3, 29 June 2007