Parse .ini file

readIniSection.sh

# Reads a section of the ini file and put the results in variables prefixed by the supplied prefix. 
readIniSection() {
	local PREFIX="$1"
	local SECTION="${2-main}"
	
	# Neat way to parse the ini section from CONFIG_FILE
	# shamelessly taken from http://www.tuxz.net/blog/
	eval `sed -e 's/[[:space:]]*\=[[:space:]]*/=/g' \
    -e 's/;.*$//' \
    -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' \
    -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' \
    -e "s/^\(.*\)=\([^\"']*\)$/\1=\"\2\"/" \
    -e "s/^\(.*\)=/${PREFIX}\1=/" \
   < $CONFIG_FILE \
    | sed -n -e "/^\[$SECTION\]/,/^\s*\[/{/^[^;].*\=.*/p;}"`
}