bash-config
Bash script to interact with configuration files. Great for easily implementing basic config files in all of your Android, Linux, or OSX shell scripts.
Features
- read/write/delete parameters with values
- create and delete config files
- autodetection of config style (between Bash and ini)
- options for different styles of config files
- Bash-style
- Window's ini-style
- use custom delimeter
Linux Installation
To install bash-config on Linux:
sudo install bash-config /usr/local/bin
Android Installation
This script was originally written for Bash but now supports Android's default shell mksh as well.
The only external tools used by bash-config are grep and sed. If you are missing either of these then you should install busybox.
Assuming you can download or otherwise transfer bash-config onto your phone, here are the installation instructions:
su
cp bash-config /data/local/bin
sed -i 's:#!/bin/bash:#!/system/bin/mksh:' /data/local/bin/bash-config # update the shebang for Android's default shell
chmod 0755 /data/local/bin/bash-config
NOTE: You may need to add /data/local/bin to your PATH. This involves editing your shell's rc file. If you are using the default mksh shell, it is located at /system/etc/mkshrc. For Bash, it is most likely at /system/etc/bash/bashrc. Append the following to the end of the file:
export PATH="$PATH:/data/local/bin"
Usage
When accessing values, the config style is autodetected. When storing a value in a new file, it defaults to Bash-style (i.e. PARAMETER=value).
To create the first entry in an ini-style file (i.e. PARAMETER = value):
bash-config --ini FILE parameter value
To use a custom separator (i.e. PARAMETER:value) for read and write operations:
bash-config --custom : FILE parameter value
To access parameter value:
bash-config FILE parameter
To delete parameter:
bash-config FILE parameter %
To delete config file:
bash-config FILE %
License
Copyright (c) 2015 Six (brbsix@gmail.com).
Licensed under the GPLv3 license.