This function had a variety of pitfalls, including the inability to successfully find a key=value pair where no whitespace surrounded the equals sign. Make it more robust by splitting the line on the equals itself, and performing whitespace trimming on the resulting key/value pair. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> --- scripts/pacman-key.sh.in | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in b/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in index b884870..9fae0d8 100644 --- a/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in +++ b/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in @@ -74,17 +74,19 @@ This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.\n\ There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.\n")" } -# Read provided file and search for values matching the given key -# The contents of the file are expected to be in this format: key = value -# 'key', 'equal sign' and 'value' can be surrounded by random whitespace -# Usage: get_from "$file" "$key" # returns the value for the first matching key in the file +# read the config file "$1" which has key=value pairs, and return the key which +# matches "$2". the equals sign between pairs may be surrounded by any amount +# of whitespace. get_from() { - while read key _ value; do - if [[ $key = $2 ]]; then - echo "$value" - break + while IFS='=' read -r key value; do + [[ -z $key || ${key:0:1} = '#' ]] && continue + + if [[ ${key%% *} = "$2" && -n ${value##* } ]]; then + echo "${value##* }" + return 0 fi done < "$1" + return 1 } reload_keyring() { -- 1.7.6