On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Davide Bolcioni <dblistsub-fedora@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Naturally there is nothing against to contribuite to auges in first place if inclined. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
