Config::Augeas - Edit configuration files through Augeas C library

  use Config::Augeas;

  my $aug = Config::Augeas->new( root => $aug_root ) ;

  my $ret = $aug->get("/files/etc/hosts/1/ipaddr") ;
  $aug->set("/files/etc/hosts/2/ipaddr","192.168.0.1") ;

  my @a = $aug->match("/files/etc/hosts/") ;

  my $nb = $aug->count_match("/files/etc/hosts/") ;

  $aug->save ;

Augeas is a library and command line tool that focuses on the most basic problem in handling Linux configurations programmatically: editing actual configuration files in a controlled manner.

To that end, Augeas exposes a tree of all configuration settings (well, all the ones it knows about) and a simple local API for manipulating the tree. Augeas then modifies underlying configuration files according to the changes that have been made to the tree; it does as little modeling of configurations as possible, and focuses exclusively on transforming the tree-oriented syntax of its public API to the myriad syntaxes of individual configuration files.

This module provides an object oriented Perl interface for Augeas configuration edition library with a more "perlish" API than Augeas C counterpart.

Creates a new Config::Augeas object. Optional parameters are:

loadpath

a colon-spearated list of directories that lenses should be searched in. This is in addition to the standard load path and the directories in specified AUGEAS_LENS_LIB environment variable.

root

Use root as the filesystem root. If not specified, use the value of the environment variable AUGEAS_ROOT. If that doesn't exist either, use "/".

save => backup | newfile | noop

Specify how to save the configuration file. Either create a newfile (with extension .augnew, and do not overwrite the original file) or move the original file into a backup file (.augsave extension). noop make saves a no-op process, just record what would have changed

type_check => 1

Typecheck lenses; since it can be very expensive it is not done by default.

no_std_inc

Do not use the builtin load path for modules

no_load

Do not load the tree from AUG_INIT

Define a variable name whose value is the result of evaluating expr. If a variable name already exists, its name will be replaced with the result of evaluating expr.

If expr is omitted, the variable name will be removed if it is defined.

Path variables can be used in path expressions later on by prefixing them with '$'.

Returns -1 on error; on success, returns 0 if expr evaluates to anything other than a nodeset, and the number of nodes if expr evaluates to a nodeset

Define a variable name whose value is the result of evaluating expr, which must evaluate to a nodeset. If a variable name already exists, its name will be replaced with the result of evaluating expr.

If expr evaluates to an empty nodeset, a node is created, equivalent to calling set( expr, value) and name will be the nodeset containing that single node.

Returns undef on error

Returns an array containing:

• the number of nodes in the nodeset
• 1 if a node was created, and 0 if it already existed.

Lookup the value associated with path. Returns the value associated with path if path matches exactly one node. If PATH matches no nodes or more than one node, returns undef.

Set the value associated with path to value. value is copied into Augeas internal data structure. Intermediate entries are created if they don't exist. Return 1 on success, 0 on error. It is an error if more than one node matches path.

Create a new sibling label for path by inserting into the tree just before or just after path.

path must match exactly one existing node in the tree, and label must be a label, i.e. not contain a '/', '*' or end with a bracketed index '[N]'.

Return 1 on success, and 0 if the insertion fails.

Remove path and all its children. Returns the number of entries removed. All nodes that match path, and their descendants, are removed. (remove can also be called with rm)

Move the node SRC to DST. SRC must match exactly one node in the tree. DST must either match exactly one node in the tree, or may not exist yet. If DST exists already, it and all its descendants are deleted. If DST does not exist yet, it and all its missing ancestors are created.

Note that the node SRC always becomes the node DST: when you move /a/b to /x, the node /a/b is now called /x, no matter whether /x existed initially or not. (move can also be called with mv)

Returns 1 in case of success, 0 otherwise.

Returns an array of the elements that match of the path expression pattern. The returned paths are sufficiently qualified to make sure that they match exactly one node in the current tree.

Same as match but return the number of matching element in manner more efficient than using scalar match( pattern )

Write all pending changes to disk. Return 0 if an error is encountered, 1 on success. Only files that had any changes made to them are written. save will follow backup files as specified with Config::Augeas::new backup parameter.

Load files into the tree. Which files to load and what lenses to use on them is specified under /augeas/load in the tree; each entry /augeas/load/NAME specifies a 'transform', by having itself exactly one child 'lens' and any number of children labelled 'incl' and 'excl'. The value of NAME has no meaning.

The 'lens' grandchild of /augeas/load specifies which lens to use, and can either be the fully qualified name of a lens 'Module.lens' or '@Module'. The latter form means that the lens from the transform marked for autoloading in MODULE should be used.

The 'incl' and 'excl' grandchildren of /augeas/load indicate which files to transform. Their value are used as glob patterns. Any file that matches at least one 'incl' pattern and no 'excl' pattern is transformed. The order of 'incl' and 'excl' entries is irrelevant.

When init is first called, it populates /augeas/load with the transforms marked for autoloading in all the modules it finds.

Before loading any files, load will remove everything underneath /augeas/files and /files, regardless of whether any entries have been modified or not.

Returns 0 on error, 1 on success. Note that success includes the case where some files could not be loaded. Details of such files can be found as '/augeas//error'.

Print each node matching path and its descendants on STDOUT or in a file

The second parameter can be :

• A file name.
• Omitted. In this case, print to STDOUT

If path is omitted, all Augeas nodes will be printed.

Example:

  $aug->print ; # print all nodes to STDOUT
  $aug->print('/files') ; # print all file nodes to STDOUT
  $aug->print('/augeas/','bar.txt'); # print Augeas meta data in bar.txt

WARNING: The parameter order is reversed compared to Augeas C API.

Returns the error code from the last API call as a short string: noerror, nomem, internal, pathx, nomatch, manymatch, syntax, nolens, multiple_transforms

Return a human-readable message for the error code.

Return a human-readable message elaborating the error code; might be undef. For example, when the error code is pathx, this will explain how the path expression is invalid.

Return details about the error, which might be undef. For example, for pathx, indicates where in the path expression the error occurred. The returned value can only be used until the next API call

Object oriented design would suggest to use a new class to represent Augeas errors, but this would stray too far from current Augeas design and API.

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http://augeas.net/ : Augeas project page

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Config::Model : Another kind of configuration editor (with optional GUI and advanced validation).

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Augeas mailing list: http://augeas.net/developers.html

Dominique Dumont, <ddumont at cpan dot org@<gt>

Copyright (C) 2008-2010 by Dominique Dumont

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the LGPL terms.