On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/pppload -i 2 -p 10
[...]
> /usr/X11R6/bin/pppload $(tail -n +2 /etc/pppload)
[...]
> /usr/X11R6/bin/pppload \
> $(grep -v ^\# \
> $(if [ -r ~/.pppload ]; then \
> echo ~/.pppload; \
> else \
> echo /etc/pppload; \
> fi))
Gack!
I see a couple of problems with this. First, "-i 2 -p 10" makes a bit of a
silly looking configuration file. Secondly, placing any of the above
commands in your "menu" entry seems wrong to me -- if the user runs pppload
from the command line, he doesn't get the same settings as starting it from
the menu!
Best thing to do is rename /usr/X11R6/bin/pppload to, say, pppload.real and
make a shell script containing the last command above with an added "$*"
parameter passed to pppload.real. Actually, in the ideal case you would
parse a nicely-formatted configuration file (with real words) into the
desired options, so you could have lines like
interval 2
and so on.
You could do this with perl, awk, or if you're truly sick, even sed:
cat configfile \
| sed 's/#.*$//' \
| tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' \
| sed s/interval/-i/g
Yikes. Excuse me, now I'm even making myself crazy.
Avery
P.S. '#' comments should be allowed even if they aren't at the beginning of
a line.
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