#!/bin/bash
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#
# tcar_getConfigSectionNames.sh -- This function standardizes the way
# section names are retrieved from configuration files. Once section
# names are retrieved they are printed to standard output for
# further processing.
#
# Written by:
# * Alain Reguera Delgado <al@centos.org.cu>, 2009-2013
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#
# Copyright (C) 2009-2013 The CentOS Project
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
# your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
#
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function tcar_getConfigSectionNames {
# Define absolute path to configuration file we want to retrieve
# section names from.
local CONFIGURATION_FILE=${1}
# Verify existence of configuration file.
tcar_checkFiles -ef ${CONFIGURATION_FILE}
# Define regular expression pattern used to retrieve section names
# from configuration files. Don't permit any regular expression
# meta-character either.
local CONFIGURATION_SECTION_REGEX='^\[[[:alnum:]_.-]+\][[:space:]]*$'
# Output all section names without brackets, one per line. Don't
# permit any kind of expansion here. Section names are used as
# reference to retrieve information from configuration file,
# expanding them would create different points of verifications.
egrep ${CONFIGURATION_SECTION_REGEX} ${CONFIGURATION_FILE} \
| sed -r 's,\[(.+)\],\1,'
}