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Elektra 0.11.0
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This plugin is useful if you have a file in a format not supported by any other plugin and want to use the Elektra tools to edit individual lines.
This plugin is designed to save each line from a file as a key. The keys form an array. The key names are determined by the line number such as #3
or #_12
for lines 4 and 13. The plugin considers #0
to be the first line. The plugin will automatically add _
to the beginning of key names in order to keep them in numerical order (like specified for Elektra arrays).
The value of each key hold the content of the actual file line-by-line.
For example, consider the following content of the file ~/.config/line
where the numbers on the left represent the line numbers:
We mount that file by:
This file would result in the following keyset which is being displayed as key: value
, e.g. with:
```
sudo kdb mount line /tests/line base64 line
kdb set user:/tests/line/add something kdb set user:/tests/line/ignored huhu kdb set user:/tests/line ignored # adding parent key does nothing kdb set user:/tests/line/add here
cat kdb file user:/tests/line
#> something #> huhu #> here
kdb ls user:/tests/line
kdb set user:/tests/line/#1 huhu
kdb export user:/tests/line line #> something #> huhu #> here
sudo kdb umount /tests/line
sudo kdb mount line /tests/line base64 line
echo 'setting1 true' > kdb file user:/tests/line
echo 'setting2 false' >> kdb file user:/tests/line
echo 'setting3 1000' >> kdb file user:/tests/line
echo '#comment' >> kdb file user:/tests/line
echo >> kdb file user:/tests/line
echo >> kdb file user:/tests/line
echo '//some other comment' >> kdb file user:/tests/line
echo >> kdb file user:/tests/line
echo 'setting4 -1' >> kdb file user:/tests/line
awk '{print NR-1 "-" $0}' < kdb file user:/tests/line
#> 0-setting1 true #> 1-setting2 false #> 2-setting3 1000 #> 3-#comment #> 4- #> 5- #> 6-//some other comment #> 7- #> 8-setting4 -1
kdb rm -r user:/tests/line sudo kdb umount /tests/line ```