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Old 02-05-2007
Question Automate config changes
Hi All,

I have stooopidly agreed to automate our release process (which though easy is a pain).

The config file has a simple structure, below, each section can have upto 20 parms. The release doc will have the section name and parm to be changed.
What I want is to read the list of changes and then make the edit. I can do the auto edit (done before) I'm just struggling to do the find and read next line.

I'll find the section name and then read then next lot of lines, make the edits and do this until I find the next section name , where I start the edits again.
I'm finding the section based on the "^[" but I'm not sure how to continue the read assuming the ^ not equal to ^[. Any ideas?????

[Section1]
parm=value
parm2=value
parm3=value
[Section2]
parm=value
parm2=value
parm3=value
 
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apt-config

APT-CONFIG(8)								APT							     APT-CONFIG(8)

NAME

       apt-config - APT Configuration Query program

SYNOPSIS

       apt-config [-hv] [-o=config string] [-c=file] {[shell] | [dump]}

DESCRIPTION

       apt-config is an internal program used by various portions of the APT suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses the main
       configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf in a manner that is easy to use by scripted applications.

       Unless the -h, or --help option is given one of the commands below must be present.

       shell
	   shell is used to access the configuration information from a shell script. It is given pairs of arguments, the first being a shell
	   variable and the second the configuration value to query. As output it lists a series of shell assignments commands for each present
	   value. In a shell script it should be used like:

	       OPTS="-f"
	       RES=`apt-config shell OPTS MyApp::options`
	       eval $RES
	   This will set the shell environment variable $OPTS to the value of MyApp::options with a default of -f.

	   The configuration item may be postfixed with a /[fdbi]. f returns file names, d returns directories, b returns true or false and i
	   returns an integer. Each of the returns is normalized and verified internally.

       dump
	   Just show the contents of the configuration space.

OPTIONS

       All command line options may be set using the configuration file, the descriptions indicate the configuration option to set. For boolean
       options you can override the config file by using something like -f-,--no-f, -f=no or several other variations.

       -h, --help
	   Show a short usage summary.

       -v, --version
	   Show the program version.

       -c, --config-file
	   Configuration File; Specify a configuration file to use. The program will read the default configuration file and then this
	   configuration file. If configuration settings need to be set before the default configuration files are parsed specify a file with the
	   APT_CONFIG environment variable. See apt.conf(5) for syntax information.

       -o, --option
	   Set a Configuration Option; This will set an arbitrary configuration option. The syntax is -o Foo::Bar=bar.	-o and --option can be
	   used multiple times to set different options.

SEE ALSO

       apt.conf(5)

DIAGNOSTICS

       apt-config returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.

BUGS

       APT bug page[1]. If you wish to report a bug in APT, please see /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command.

AUTHORS

       Jason Gunthorpe

       APT team

NOTES

	1. APT bug page
	   http://bugs.debian.org/src:apt

Linux								 29 February 2004						     APT-CONFIG(8)