Re: .ini files in bash?

From: Cameron Hutchison (camh+dl_at_xdna.net)
Date: 11/29/04

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    Once upon a time David Baron said...
    > On Monday 29 November 2004 16:04, Sam Watkins wrote:
    > > If you want to see what variables are set, type:
    > >
    > >   set
    > >
    > > this shows shell functions too.
    > >
    > > you can save these variables (and possibly functions) in a file:
    > >
    > >   set > myvariables
    > >
    > > and restore them again:
    > >
    > >   source ./myvariables
    > >
    > > or if you're lazy to type source:
    > >
    > >   . ./myvariables
    >
    > set > myvariables does through every (I mean everything) somehow set in
    > ~/myvariables.
    >
    > However, source ~/myvariables does NOT work. Script simply aborts. It is
    > finding the file, otherwize, get error message.

    Ok. I got bored and spend a minute writing this:

    function savevars()
    {
        for var in "$@" ; do
            eval "echo $var=\\\"\$$var\\\""
        done
    }

    Just call it like:
    savevars VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 >file

    then load the vars with:
    source ./file 

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