I have a parameters.ini file, such as:
[parameters.ini]
database_user = user
database_version = 20110611142248
I want to read in and use the database version specified in the parameters.ini file from within a bash shell script so I can process it.
Try this:
dbver=$(sed -n 's/.*database_version *= *\([^ ]*.*\)/\1/p' < parameters.ini)
echo $dbver