Have you looked at Augeas http://augeas.net http://augeas.net ? Augeas is: - An API provided by a C library - A command line tool to manipulate configuration

Have you looked at Augeas http://augeas.net http://augeas.net ? Augeas is: - An API provided by a C library - A command line tool to manipulate configuration from the shell (and shell scripts) - Language bindings to do the same from your favorite scripting language - Canonical tree representations of common configuration files - A domain-specific language to describe configuration file formats