Question about bash wrapper script

[yersinia]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Davide Bolcioni
<dblistsub-fedora at yahoo.it> wrote:
> On Sunday 02 May 2010 10:52:57 Berry, Randall wrote:
>
>>   I have an application I am working on that requires a config file in
>> the users home directory. This file is .asoundrc (alsa sound config) I
>> need to write a script that does 5 things.
>
> Assuming the format is the same format used in /etc/asound.conf, what you
> need is known as a "parser" and you need one which can be invoked from bash.
>
>>   I've gotten all but step 3 and step 4 to work so far but I don't know
>> how to tell bash to check for the needed parameters in an existing file
>> and if not there append them.
>
> There is a project for writing configuration file parsers
>
>  <http://augeas.net/>
>
> but it does not seem to include one for .asoundrc. A quick Google search
> turned up nothing. The functionality you need is probably available through
> the Alsa library, but I suspect this would require some C programming.
Naturally there is nothing against to contribuite to auges in first
place if inclined.