On Sunday 02 May 2010 10:52:57 Berry, Randall wrote:
I have an application I am working on that requires a config file
in
the users home directory. This file is .asoundrc (alsa sound config) I
need to write a script that does 5 things.
Assuming the format is the same format used in /etc/asound.conf, what you
need is known as a "parser" and you need one which can be invoked from bash.
I've gotten all but step 3 and step 4 to work so far but I
don't know
how to tell bash to check for the needed parameters in an existing file
and if not there append them.
There is a project for writing configuration file parsers
<
http://augeas.net/>
but it does not seem to include one for .asoundrc. A quick Google search
turned up nothing. The functionality you need is probably available through
the Alsa library, but I suspect this would require some C programming.
You might find more helpful advice in the pages of the Alsa project
<
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page>
including where to ask the above question again.
Davide Bolcioni
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