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Read values from a simple toml file from bash
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| ####################################################################################### | |
| # Bash function get_toml_value() to get the value of a key in a section of a TOML file. | |
| # Versioned here: https://gist.github.com/kwmiebach/e42dc4a43d5a2a0f2c3fdc41620747ab | |
| # Call it like this: | |
| # value=$(get_toml_value "./conf/config.toml" "server_b" "domain") | |
| # Result should be "my123.example.com" in the case of this example file: | |
| # --------------------------- | |
| # [server_a] | |
| # proto = "https" | |
| # domain = "test.example.net" | |
| # access_token = "*******123**********" | |
| # | |
| # [server_b] | |
| # proto = "http" | |
| # domain = "my123.example.com" | |
| # access_token = "*******123**********" | |
| # --------------------------- | |
| # Does not work for other more complex TOML files. | |
| get_toml_value() { | |
| # Takes three parameters: | |
| # - TOML file path ($1) | |
| # - section ($2) | |
| # - the key ($3) | |
| # | |
| # It first gets the section using the get_section function | |
| # Then it finds the key within that section | |
| # using grep and cut. | |
| local file="$1" | |
| local section="$2" | |
| local key="$3" | |
| get_section() { | |
| # Function to get the section from a TOML file | |
| # Takes two parameters: | |
| # - TOML file path ($1) | |
| # - section name ($2) | |
| # | |
| # It uses sed to find the section | |
| # A section is terminated by a line with [ in pos 0 or the end of file. | |
| local file="$1" | |
| local section="$2" | |
| sed -n "/^\[$section\]/,/^\[/p" "$file" | sed '$d' | |
| } | |
| get_section "$file" "$section" | grep "^$key " | cut -d "=" -f2- | tr -d ' "' | |
| } | |
| # End Function get_toml_value() | |
| ##################################################################################### |
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