Exporting universe configurations

Is there a way to export the universe configurations, specifically the DB connection, to text or XML by commands? We had an incident where one of our universe on the production environment was pointing to QA data warehouse by mistakenly exported the universe from QA to production. So, we are thinking about writing some type of shell scripts to constantly check the db settings to make sure it is correct. I did a search on the connection name and found only binary matching in the universe file. So, is there a way to get this setting by a shell script by exporting it to a text file?