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How to parse config files with Bash
Keeping program configurations separate from code is important. It enables non-programmers to alter configurations without having to modify the program's code.
The Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Standard defines~/bin as the appropriate place for users to store their executable files. Every Linux host that uses Bash—which is pretty much all of them since Bash is the default shell for all distributions—includes some excellent, built-in examples of sourcing. This article explored sourcing for pulling code and variable assignments into a Bash program.
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