GAH! Bash script insanity

[Kevin D. Clark]

Joshua Pollak writes:

> I guess I want something like:
> 
> RESULT=`sed -e s/#.*// ${CONFIG_FILE}` | `awk -F"=" '/${PARAMETER}/ {
> print $2 }' `

I suggest this:

RESULT=`sed -e 's/#.*//' "${CONFIG_FILE}" | awk -F"=" "/${PARAMETER}/ { print \\$2 }"`


I also recommend Perl's Config::Simple module.

Regards,

--kevin
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