On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:29:55AM -0700, Guillermo A. Amaral wrote:
> Anybody willing to try out my bash config library?
> I also made this little utility to help out with my Arch and Gentoo server
> updates.
>
> The main part is the library that can be used in many configuration
> utilities, It allows you to parse, modify bash config scripts and save there
> structure by only modifying the variables that got updated in there original
> location in the file.
>
> I made a basic command based utility for the library so I can test it out,
> the app is called 'bashcfg' and it accepts 1 input file and multiple
> commands. Example:
>
> $ bashcfg /etc/rc.conf +DAEMONS=kdm -DAEMONS=xdm
>
> This command will append add 'kdm' and at the same time remove 'xdm' from the
> DAEMONS array in rc.conf .
Sounds like a typical sed job:
bashcfg_add ()
{
sed "s/$1=(\([^)]*\))/$1=(\1 $2)/"
}
bashcfg_remove ()
{
sed "s/$1=(\([^)]*\)$2\([^)]*\))/$1=(\1\2)/"
}
</etc/rc.conf bashcfg_add DAEMONS kdm|bashcfg_remove DAEMONS xdm
Why implement this in C++?
Jürgen
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