Shell Programming and Scripting

hi everybody,

I need a quick help with this issue. I have configuration file in which the following set of strings must be present. I need to check it with the bash script (leading spaces are not significant). Check must be case insensitive. Can anybody help?

Code:

... any lines
<SECTION NAME="MAP">
... any lines
    <PARAMETER NAME="ForcedLocalTDP14ForGPRSCSI"
               TYPE="BOOLEAN"
               VALUE="true"
               RANGE="True|False"
               VISIBILITY="Yes"
               MODE="Dynamic"
 ... any lines

I would say

Code:

man grep

More specifically something like this:

Code:

grep -E "SECTION|PARAMETER" filename
exitStatus=$?
[ $exitStatus -eq 0 ] && echo "found"
[ $exitStatus -eq 1 ] && echo "not found"
[ $exitStatus -eq 2 ] && echo "grep error"

No, this is not what I need. I know of course to grep file and check the presence of specific string. But in the config file there are many parameters which have type/value/range/visibility defined. So what I need is to parse the config file and check if parameter "ForcedLocalTDP14ForGPRSCSI" has defined its parameters as specified above (i.e. the VALUE=true and also the other pars. belong to the mentioned parameter) and if it is defined in the section "MAP" (check the order of appearance would be enough).

If your file is a true xml you can use xsltproc and a xslt stylesheet to do your task.
Or you can elaborate a regular expression to match your need.

The more information you give, the easier it will be to help you ;o)

sed -n '/<SECTION NAME=.MAP.>/,/<\/SECTION>/p' config_file.txt | sed -n '/<PARAMETER NAME=.ForcedLocalTDP14ForGPRSCSI./,/RESPONSIBILITY/p' > TDP14.cfg;
test `grep -i 'VALUE=.true.' TDP14.cfg | wc -l` -eq 1 ;
test `grep -i 'VISIBILITY=.Yes.' TDP14.cfg | wc -l` -eq 1 ;
test `grep -i 'MODE=.Dynamic.' TDP14.cfg | wc -l` -eq 1 ;