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Term: | INI | Wiki | Freetz | IPPF | whmf | AVM | Web |
Short for: | Initialisation File | ||||||
Location: | Lexicon >> File-Formats | ||||||
Weblinks: | Wikipedia.int - Wikipedia.de | ||||||
Description: | Text file splitted into sections, each section containing key = value assignments |
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Details
An INI file is a text file which is splitted into one or more sections, each section containing key = value assignments.
It is a traditional configuration file format in MSDOS and Windows world, using .INI
or .ini
filename extension.
Example:
; Comment [SECTION1] key1 = value key2 = value [SECTION2] key1 = value key2 = value ...
The ini
format is an early extensible configuration file format, which also reached other platforms.
A parser can ignore sections and keys it is not interested in. INI is human readable and editable.
Today XML and JSON are more flexible configuration file formats, but they are not human readable and editable..
Both are very sensitive to syntax and structure errors, a single character can break an entire file. INI is more robust.
FRITZ!OS
In FRITZ!OS the INI fotmat is used for:
- supervisor
.service
and.target
definition files (like systemd) - more - todo