Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files. 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 Augeas goals: - Manipulate configuration files safely, safer than the ad-hoc techniques generally used with grep, sed, awk and similar mechanisms in scripting languages - Provide a local configuration API for Linux - Make it easy to integrate new config files into the Augeas tree