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+Augeas is a library and command line tool that focuses on the most basic
+problem in handling Linux configurations programmatically: editing actual
+configuration files in a controlled manner.
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+To that end, Augeas exposes a tree of all configuration settings (well,
+all the ones it knows about) and a simple local API for manipulating the
+tree. Augeas then modifies underlying configuration files according to
+the changes that have been made to the tree; it does as little modeling
+of configurations as possible, and focuses exclusivley on transforming
+the tree-oriented syntax of its public API to the myriad syntaxes of
+individual configuration files.