[Feature request] Support of advanced actions

dbohdan / initool

Manipulate INI files from the command line

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[Feature request] Support of advanced actions #13

Open ohault opened 5 months ago

ohault commented 5 months ago

Advances actions could be implemented on top of the existing one, thanks to the clean and great design of this tool.

Here are some proposals

remove duplicate entries
merge sections
compact to merge sections and remove duplicate entries
diff two INI files
sync a section between two INI files
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dbohdan commented 5 months ago

I don't plan to implement these features right now. I will keep the issue open as a list of ideas for me and any contributors.

yaitskov commented 3 months ago

add modify in place flag - stick to sed until then. these days everything serious is dockerized/nixified etc and there is no danger of concurrent access to dirty file.