[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/6] Don't do eval

[lolilolicon]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:14 AM, lolilolicon <lolilolicon at gmail.com> wrote:
> +# parse value of simple, non-repeating variable assignment
> +conf_var_val() {
> +       local var=${1//\//\\/}
> +       awk '
> +       /^[ \t]*'"${var}"'[ \t]*=/ {
> +               sub(/[^=]+=[ \t]*/, "")
> +               sub(/[ \t]*$/, "")
> +               print
> +               exit
> +       }'
> +}
> +
> +DBPath=$(conf_var_val DBPath < @sysconfdir@/pacman.conf)

Mind you, my awk-fu is currently weak. You probably find this lame,
please do tell.
I particularly feel uncomfortble with the ${var} in there, but I don't
know how you can
do that with `awk -v var="$1"`.