Multiseat setup - helper-functions

. /etc/default/multiseat

#
# private implementation of get_sect
#
# get given section's contents from the given config file
#
# $1 filename
# $2 section number
#
__get_sect()
{
    cat $1 | awk -v sect=$2 '
    BEGIN {
        SECT="^\[" sect "\]"
        NEXT_SECT="^\[" (sect + 1) "\]"
    }
    $0 ~ SECT, $0 ~ NEXT_SECT {
        if ($0 ~ SECT)
            next;
        if ($0 ~ NEXT_SECT)
            next;
        if (substr($1, 1, 1) == "#")
            next;
        print
    }
    '
}

#
# private implementation of get_conf
#
# get given key's contents from the given section
# from the given config file
#
# does not work for tables in the config file
#
# $1 filename
# $2 section name
# $3 key name
#
__get_conf()
{
    __get_sect $1 $2 | awk -F"=" -v key=$3 '
    BEGIN {
        KEY=key
    }
    $1==KEY {
        print substr($0, index($0, "=") + 1)
    }
    '
}

#
# private implementation of get_num_seats
#
# get number of seats from the default config file
#
# $1 filename
#
__get_num_seats()
{
    cat $1 | awk '
    BEGIN {
        count=0
    }
    /^\[[0-9]*\]/ {count++}
    END {
        print count - 1
    }
    '
}

#
# get given section's contents from the default config file
#
# $1 section name
#
get_sect()
{
    __get_sect $CONFIG $1
}

#
# private implementation of get_table
#
# $1 filename
# $2 section number
# $3 table name
# $4 size/entry switch [-size => size, <number> for entry]
#
__get_table()
{
    SIZE=0;
    ENTRY=-1

    if [ $4 == "-size" ];
    then
        SIZE=1;
    else
        ENTRY=$4
    fi

    RESULT=`__get_sect $1 $2 | awk -v table=$3 -v get_size=$SIZE -v entry=$ENTRY '
    BEGIN {
        print BEGIn
        TABLE=table "\=" "\("
        GET_SIZE=get_size
        ENTRY=entry
        size=0
    }
    $0 ~ TABLE, /^\)/ {
        if ($0 ~ TABLE)
            next;
        if ($0 ~ /^\)/)
            next;
        if (substr($1, 1, 1) == "#")
            next;
        if (get_size == 0 && size == entry){
                print
                exit
        }
        size++;
    }
    END {
        if (get_size)
            print size;
    }
    '`
    RESULT=`echo $RESULT | sed 's/^[ \t]*//g'`

    echo $RESULT
}

#
# get given key's contents from the given section
# from the default config file
#
# does not work for tables in the config file
#
# $1 section name
# $2 key name
#
get_conf()
{
    __get_conf $CONFIG $1 $2
}

#
# get number of seats from the default config file
#
get_num_seats()
{
    __get_num_seats $CONFIG
}

#
# get size of a given table in the given section of the config file or
# get specified entry of the table
#
# $1 section number
# $2 table name
# $3 size/entry switch [-size => size, <number> for entry]
#
get_table()
{
    __get_table $CONFIG $1 $2 $3
}