Configuration (ini style) parser in Bash

This script is freely inspired by bash ini parser from ajdiaz. It's a fast way to parse an ini-style configuration file and to load the variables in your main script.

This script is under the MIT License. See LICENSE file.

config-parser.sh uses sed to parse the ini file.

Just include config-parser.sh in your code, and then call it:

# parse the configuration file
config_parser "/path/to/config/file.ini";
# load <my_section> from the ini file
config.section.<my_section>;

[dev]
foo="bar";
foofoo="foo";
foofoofoo="$foofoo $foo";

[prod]
foo="foo";
foofoo="bar";
foofoofoo="$foofoo $foo";

If we run the following code against this example:

config_parser "/path/to/example/file.ini";
config.section.dev;
echo "$foofoofoo";
config.section.prod;
echo "$foofoofoo";

We'll get this output:

foo bar
bar foo