Configuration (ini style) parser in Bash
This script is freely inspired by bash ini parser from ajdiaz. It's a fast way to parse an ini-style configuration file and to load the variables in your main script.
This script is under the MIT License. See LICENSE file.
config-parser.sh uses sed to parse the ini file.
Issues have been found with Mac OSX' sed command (see Issue #4), but sukima was kind enough to fork this project and make a OSX version of the script: here.
Just include config-parser.sh in your code, and then call it:
# parse the configuration file
config_parser "/path/to/config/file.ini";
# load <my_section> from the ini file
config.section.<my_section>;
[dev]
foo="bar";
foofoo="foo";
foofoofoo="$foofoo $foo";
[prod]
foo="foo";
foofoo="bar";
foofoofoo="$foofoo $foo";
If we run the following code against this example:
source config-parser.sh; # Either include the content of the file in your script, or source it for command line testing.
config_parser "example.ini";
config.section.dev;
echo "$foofoofoo";
config.section.prod;
echo "$foofoofoo";
We'll get this output:
foo bar
bar foo