You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

This chapter excerpt on Linux Administration (download PDF) is taken from the book The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide. Among the topics covered in this book ...

Data serialization languages, like Extensible Markup Language and YAML Ain't Markup Language, are typically found in infrastructure-as-code management software. Understand the differences and use ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

I need to design a config file, and I'm hoping to use an open source parser for it. It's pretty simple, except for nesting. My config file would be something like: Streetname = My Street Dr. An ini ...

Often while working on your Windows 11/10 computer, you may come across CFG extension files. One may perceive these files to be complicated in nature, and they are so. Files with a CFG or a CONFIG ...