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On 10/11/2010 05:38 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
>
> $ uname -spr
> FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 amd64
> $ which augtool
> $ type augtool
> -bash: type: augtool: not found
>
> Not like I'm running bare...
>
> $ pkg_info -Ia | wc -l
>       399
>
> Unfortunately, augtool doesn't even appear to be packaged for FreeBSD:
>

Try pkg_add -r augeas.

The port is textproc/augeas. Augtool is just the cli frontend to libaugeas.

There's also language bindings for python and ruby.

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Russell A Jackson <raj@csub.edu>
Network Analyst
California State University, Bakersfield