| cfg.parser () { | |
| fixed_file=$(cat $1 | sed 's/ = /=/g') # fix ' = ' to be '=' | |
| IFS=$'\n' && ini=( $fixed_file ) # convert to line-array | |
| ini=( ${ini[*]//;*/} ) # remove comments | |
| ini=( ${ini[*]/#[/\}$'\n'cfg.section.} ) # set section prefix | |
| ini=( ${ini[*]/%]/ \(} ) # convert text2function (1) | |
| ini=( ${ini[*]/=/=\( } ) # convert item to array | |
| ini=( ${ini[*]/%/ \)} ) # close array parenthesis | |
| ini=( ${ini[*]/%\( \)/\(\) \{} ) # convert text2function (2) | |
| ini=( ${ini[*]/%\} \)/\}} ) # remove extra parenthesis |
TCL-Expect scripts are an amazingly easy way to script out laborious tasks in the shell when you need to be interactive with the console. Think of them as a "macro" or way to programmaticly step through a process you would run by hand. They are similar to shell scripts but utilize the .tcl extension and a different #! call.
The first step, similar to writing a bash script, is to tell the script what it's executing under. For expect we use the following:
#!/usr/bin/expect