Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:54:12 +0300 (MSK) From: "."@babolo.ru To: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, wgrim@siue.edu, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, kientzle@acm.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: key=value in rc.conf (was Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?) Message-ID: <200301031254.h03CsCIL048284@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030103131453.K69183-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
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> > They're in the CVS repository. Do a "cvs diff -c" before and after
> > the code was added to the file, and you'll get my diffs. 8-).
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> Perhaps the stuff at the bottom of defaults/rc.conf needs to be in a
> seperate file (like read_rc_conf.sh) with another line or 2 to read in
> defaults/rc.conf first.
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> That way shell scripts needing to parse rc.conf call upon a tool to do it
> in the same way as C programs are having to. From that point on rc.conf
> can be key=value pairs only.
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> Would this solve everyones problems or am I overlookign something?
Now it is possible
some_variable="${anoter_variable}"
or even
some_variable="${anoter_variable##text}"
so on.
It is useful in some automated environment.
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