DevSecOps and DevOps for Linux: The Foundations

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M. A. CarcanoDevSecOps and DevOps for Linuxhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-2077-9_6

6. Key-Value Pairs

Marco Antonio Carcano¹  

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Genestrerio, Switzerland

 

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2. Comma-Separated Values (CSV)
3. Summary

Note

This paragraph’s sample scripts are supposed to be stored in the key-values directory beneath the chapter’s workspace directory: create it and change directory to it – mkdir key-values; cd key-values

This is one of the most basic and straightforward data formats, consisting of a key-value pair separated by a delimiter character, typically an equals sign (=). For example:

key=value

A common use case is setting an environment variable in a shell, such as

USERNAME=mcarcano ...