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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to Read config (.cfg) files using shell scripting Post 302108959 by cfajohnson on Thursday 1st of March 2007 11:37:21 PM
Old 03-02-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by smallwonder
Hello Friends

I am new to this forum and this is my first post.

I have to write a script in which i have to read data from a configuration ( .cfg) file. And also i have to execute/call some already written scripts from this script.

How you read the data depends on how the .cfg file is written. I use .cfg files written as shell scripts which I just source, e.g.:

Code:
. ${0##*/}.cfg

If the file is not a valid shell script, you will have to read it line by line:

Code:
while IFS= read -r line
do
  : do whatever is necessary to interpret the line here
done < "$configfilename"

 

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ser.cfg(5)							Sip Express Router							ser.cfg(5)

NAME
ser.cfg - ser configuration file SYNOPSIS
/etc/sfw/ser/ser.cfg DESCRIPTION
ser reads the configuration data from /etc/sfw/ser/ser.cfg (or the file specified with -f on the command line). The file contains global configuration parameters, module loading commands and the script that will be executed for each received request. Lines starting with # or enclosed in /* ... */ are interpreted as comments. This manual page is incomplete. For further information please read the Ser User Guide (http://www.iptel.org/ser/admin.html). FILES
/etc/sfw/ser/ser.cfg AUTHORS
Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul, <pelinescu-onciul@fokus.gmd.de> Bogdan Andrei Iancu Daniel-Constantin Mierla Jan Janak Jiri Kuthan Juha Heinanen Maxim Sobolev Miklos Tirpak Nils Ohlmeier Ramona-Elena Modroiu Raphael Coeffic Ricardo Baratto Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos SEE ALSO
ser(8) Full documentation on ser, including configuration guidelines, FAQs and licensing conditions, is available at http://www.iptel.org/ser/. For reporting bugs see http://www.iptel.org/ser/bugs/. Mailing lists: serusers@iptel.org - ser user community serdev@iptel.org - ser development, new features and unstable version For help/support, write an email to <serhelp@iptel.org>. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+--------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+--------------------+ |Availability | SUNWserr, SUNWseru | +--------------------+--------------------+ |Interface Stability | External | +--------------------+--------------------+ NOTES
Source for ser is available on http://opensolaris.org. ser 15.07.2002 ser.cfg(5)
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