simple perl script to parse smb.conf into a hash of hashes.

I'll include a wrapper in a few minutes which will give us a sample
add|delete share command

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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+##
+## local variables
+##
+my $delete_mode = undef;
+my $add_mode = undef;
+
+
+## check for correct parameters
+if ($#ARGV == 1) {
+	$delete_mode = 1;
+}
+elsif ($#ARGV == 3) {
+	$add_mode = 1;
+}
+else {
+	print "Usage: $0 configfile share [path] [comment]\n"; 
+	exit -1;
+}
+
+## first param is always the config file
+open (CONFIGFILE, "$ARGV[0]") || die "Unable to open $ARGV[0] for reading!\n";
+
+## FIXME!!  Right now we throw away all comments in the file.
+while (<CONFIGFILE>) {
+
+	chomp($_);
+	
+	## eat leading whitespace
+	$_ =~ s/^\s*//;
+	
+	## eat trailing whitespace
+	$_ =~ s/\s*$//;
+	
+
+	## throw away comments
+	next if (($_ =~ /^#/) || ($_ =~ /^;/));
+
+	## set the current section name for storing the hash
+	if ($_ =~ /^\[.*\]$/) {
+	
+		$_ = substr($_, 1, length($_)-2);
+		
+		if ( length($_) ) {
+			$section = $_;
+		}
+		else {
+			print "Bad Section Name - no closing ]\n";
+			exit -1;
+		}
+
+		next;
+	}	
+	
+	## check for a param = value
+	if ($_ =~ /=/) {
+		($param, $value) = split (/=/, $_);
+		$param =~ s/./\l$&/g;
+		$param =~ s/\s+//g;
+		
+		$config{$section}{$param} = $value;
+		
+		next;
+	}
+
+	## should have a hash of hashes indexed by section name
+}
+
+##
+## We have the smb.conf in our hash of hashes now.
+## Add or delete 
+##
+if ($add_mode) {
+	$config{$ARGV[1]}{'path'} = $ARGV[2];
+	$config{$ARGV[1]}{'comment'} = $ARGV[3];
+}
+elsif ($delete_mode) {
+	delete $config{$ARGV[1]};
+}
+
+##
+## Print the resulting configuration
+##
+PrintConfigFile();
+
+exit 0;
+
+
+
+
+
+#######################################################################################
+## PrintConfigFile()
+##
+sub PrintConfigFile {
+
+	## print the file back out, beginning with the global section
+	print "#\n# Generated by $0\n#\n";
+
+	PrintSection ('global', $config{'global'});
+
+	foreach $section (keys %config) {
+
+		if ("$section" ne "global") {
+			print "## Section - [$section]\n";
+			PrintSection ($section, $config{$section});
+		}
+	}
+
+	print "#\n# end of generated smb.conf\n#\n";
+}
+
+#######################################################################################
+## PrintSection()
+##
+sub PrintSection {
+	my ($name, $section) = @_;
+
+	print "[$name]\n";
+	foreach $param (keys %$section) {
+		print "\t$param".' 'x(25-length($param)). " = $$section{$param}\n";
+	}
+	print "\n";
+
+}