Manipulate the Windows registry

[bubble99]

Hi there,
is there a way to write to the windows registry within a awk script ???

Bubble99

 

[marsd]

AFAIK : Not really. There is no organized abstract to do so in any case. You would have to design it or adapt someone else's
work. C,tcl and vb(of course) all have interfaces to
the registry.

 

[bubble99]

ok, thank you, marsd

 

[bevkpope]

There are ways of manipulating the registry from the command line. I don't remember the details, but one basically creates a text file that contains registry commands/information and feeds that to regedit, or some other tool that can change the registry. I suspect that any good book on the Windows registry would contain information on how to do it.

You could call the above command via system.

Of course, one must take great care when editing the registry or you can destroy your system. Back it up -- back it up -- back it up .