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Equals-based Serialization Language

Contents

• Compilation
  • Prep
  • Building
    • AUR
    • Installation script
    • Meson
    • CMake
• Command usage
• Syntax

What's next?

• Config file
• Installation script

Compilation

Prep

Meson

Run:

pip install meson ninja

or

pip3 install meson ninja

This should work on most systems.

Building

AUR

EBSL is available on the AUR:

With yay:

yay -S ebsl

With paru:

paru -S ebsl

Or manually:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ebsl.git && cd ebsl && makepkg -si

Installation script

Simply run:

sh install.sh [privilege escalation tool - optional if sudo]

If you use sudo, there is no need for any argument to install.sh

Meson

To write the ninja files, run:

meson build

Then

cd build && ninja

The executable should be in that directory.

CMake

To write the makefiles, run:

cmake -Bbuild

Then

cd build && make

The executable should be in that directory.

Command usage

Arg	Purpose	Type
file	File to read from	string
key	The key whose values to get	string
amt	The amount of values to print for the key	integer or max

File conf.ebsl:

hello=world
github=git,website
phone=samsung,apple,xiaomi

To get the value of hello, run:

./ebsl file=conf.ebsl key=hello amt=1

To get the values of github, run the above command, replacing the key and amount appropriately:

./ebsl file=conf.ebsl key=github amt=2

Finally, to get all values for a key (e.g. phone), run the following:

./ebsl file=conf.ebsl key=phone amt=max

Syntax

To set a value, use:

key=value

You can also set multiple values for one key, but you need to specify the amount of values you'd like to read:

key=value1,value2