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Old 03-05-2008
Hi

Somebody managed to get me out of this problem with a function:

get_param(){
(($#==3))||{ printf "Usage: %s [fname] [section] [param]\n" $0;return 1;}
awk '$1=="["s"]"{f++}f&&$1~p{print $2;exit}' s="$2" p="$3" FS=" *= *" "$1"
}

Thanks for your time,
Bianca
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