How to read INI file in Linux

Question

How would you read an INI file using Linux commands? I know in Windows you can use API calls like GetPrivateProfileString..

Example; how to get version under system2:

[system1]

version=XYZ

date=123

[system2]

version=ABC

date=985

Take a look at [`libini`](http://sourceforge.net/projects/libini/). It supports most languages, on all platforms. — Linuxios, Feb 28 '13 at 14:22
Does this answer your question? [How do I grab an INI value within a shell script?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6318809/how-do-i-grab-an-ini-value-within-a-shell-script) — Pablo Bianchi, Jan 06 '20 at 05:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '13 at 01:02

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Have a look at crudini which is a dedicated tool to manipulate ini files from shell

version=$(crudini --get example.ini system2 version)

Details on usage and download at: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/crudini/

answered Jun 28 '13 at 01:02

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Chris Seymour · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-28T14:45:01.657

You might be interested in the python module ConfigParser:

In [1]: import ConfigParser

In [2]: config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()

In [3]: config.read('file.ini')
Out[3]: ['file.ini']

In [4]: config.get('system2','version')
Out[4]: 'ABC'

As a script pass_config.py:

import ConfigParser

config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read('file.ini')
print config.get('system2','version')

Run:

$ python pass_config.py
ABC

How to read INI file in Linux

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