Augeas is a configuration-management library and command line tool that lets you edit a wide variety of configuration files.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
initool is described as 'Manipulate INI files from the command line' and is an app in the development category. There are three alternatives to initool for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best initool alternative is Augeas, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like initool are Typeconf and IniFile.
Augeas is a configuration-management library and command line tool that lets you edit a wide variety of configuration files.
A Typescript tool to write configs with types. Manage your configs as code. Remove type errors, make configs easily shareable. Tool is installable via NPM, can be adopted incrementally!.

This tool handles Windows type INI files with section names in square brackets, and assignments of the form: item=string (case ignored for section and item names). It can change and remove items and remove properties in INI file from the Windows command line or a batch file.