Shell Programming and Scripting

For file purge and archive script, I am planing to have the reference files as below for various file system.

Code:

>ReferenceFile.cfg

...
...

DailyArchive:
{
FOLDERS      PATERN    DAYS_TO_RETAIN    MINIMUM_SIZE_THESHOLD(MB)
/aaa/bbb/      *             3                          300
/ddd/eee/      *.txt         4
/aaa/ccc/       ABC*        4                          2000
}

Exceptions:
{
EXTENSIONS
.sh
.ksh
.cfg
}

...
...
...

I would read the segment available under DailyArchive to form the list of files to be archived.
Then I would need to read the segment under the Exceptions and ignore the files with specified extensions etc

Is there any smart why read this type of reference file?

I can always, read the file till I reach the Key Word "DailyArchive" and then skip two lines, and then start reading the values till I reach "}"

But is there any other approach being handled with others?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,
format of segment DailyArchive is not as format segment Exceptions:
In segment DailyArchive, your have line's comment (FOLDER....) but in segment Exceptions your have not line's comment.
So, how to know if a line is a comment or not ?
Why this file format ?

Regards.

Thanks for pointing it out. I added the Header for the Exceptions too.

Not sure I understand what you are intending to do - read those values into variables? Compose a command line with parameters and options with them? Feed another tool? Please specify!

Iam trying to set the Enviornmental variable, and I wanted to store the details under the ENV_VARIABLE. I have more than one parameter value per line time to be stored, hence maintaining the section ArchiveDetails. And the list of all extensions that need to be considired as Exceptions, are maintained under Exception segment. But Iam open for Suggestions. Is there a better way to maintain these information? This configuration file is going to be accessed by many people, hence dont want to make it too technical. I felt, this structure, would make it more readable.