How to walk through a config file with /bin/sh

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Hi friends,

yes that's the trick and does work well. Very cool! Many thanks for your help.

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This shorter nawk trick should also work:

Code:

BEGIN{ FS=OFS="="}
/^#|^$/ {print; print > "/tmp/new_config"}
!/^#|^$/ {
	print "Set "$1 " - actual  (" $2 "):"
	"read value; echo $value" | getline myvalue
	print  $1,myvalue > "/tmp/new_config"
	close("read value; echo $value")
}

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