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Subject: GAH! Bash script insanity
From: kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: 28 Jan 2004 18:14:22 -0500
In-reply-to: <CFCDDD16-51DA-11D8-BF96-000A95DA60F4@offthehill.org>
References: <CFCDDD16-51DA-11D8-BF96-000A95DA60F4@offthehill.org>

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
-- 
Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)
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- GAH! Bash script insanity
  - From: pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)

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