src/constants.sh

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # functions, strings and other constants for shell scripts
   3
   4 # for relation between dit unit and speed in words/min
   5 # VVVVV=64, CODEX=60, PARIS=50
   6 SPEEDBASE=50
   7 # default speed [words/minute]
   8 DEFAULTWPM=12
   9
  10 # timeout [sec] for fetch operations
  11 FETCHTIMEOUT=50
  12
  13 # function to read config value by name
  14 # arguments: configfile name
  15 # value in stdout, exit nonzero if error
  16 configread () {
  17  local retline retval
  18 # check if config file readable, else fail
  19  test -r "$1" || return 2
  20 # get last line with name (possibly surrounded by whitespace)
  21  retline=`grep -i "^[   ]*$2[   ]" "$1"|tail -n 1`
  22 # fail if nothing found
  23  test "$retline" != "" || return 1
  24 # return second word from read line
  25  echo $retline | { read _ retval _ ; echo $retval ; }
  26 }