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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Accessing Variables from .conf file Post 302158873 by n1djs on Wednesday 16th of January 2008 01:15:26 PM
Old 01-16-2008
One example of many ways to read config data
Example contents of a config file name my.config
_____________________________
Some config data
_____________________________

In program that needs config file info
___________________
#!/bin/ksh
#my example program
read configline <my.config
echo "The config data is $configline"
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Another example with same config file
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#!/bin/ksh
#my second example program
read one two three<my.config
echo "The first word was $one"
echo "The second word was $two"
echo "The third word was $three"
_____________________________
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

gphoto2-config

gphoto2-config(1)						   User Commands						 gphoto2-config(1)

NAME

       gphoto2-config - return meta information about installed version of libgphoto2(3).

SYNOPSIS

       gphoto2-config [--prefix=DIR] [--libs] [--cflags] [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       gphoto2-config  is  a  convenience  script  which  retrieves  information  about  the  installed  version  of libgphoto2(3) on your system.
       gphoto2-config is typically used to compile and link against libgphoto2(3). The following example shows how  to	use  gphoto2-config  in  a
       Makefile:

       program: program.c
	     cc program.c `gphoto2-config --cflags --libs`

       The output is similar to that produced by pkg-config(1).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --cflags

	   Prints pre-processor and compile flags required to compile with libgphoto2(3) on the command line.

       --help

	   Displays help and usage information.

       --libs

	   Identical to --cflags option but only prints the link flags.

       --prefix=DIR

	   Specify a different prefix from the default libgphoto2(3). (default is/usr).

       --version

	   Displays version of libgphoto2(3) installed on your system.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gphoto2-config Executable for installed library helper script

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-camera-devel	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5), pkg-config(1), libgphoto2(3)

NOTES

       Written by Matt Keenan Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    01 Aug 2008 						 gphoto2-config(1)
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