[LUG] Parsing INI files

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone got/know of any shell/scriptable code for working with Windows- 
style .ini files, with section headers like:

[Section]

Each followed by an arbitrary number of lines of the form:

key=value

For some reason Mint LXDE PPC (one of the Debian-based Mint respins,  
not a Ubuntu-based one) uses one of these unrighteous things at

/var/run/ConsoleKit/database

I'd rather not reinvent this wheel. Lots of lower-level stuff out  
there as libraries for calling from languages I don't use day-to-day,  
each with no ready-to-go stdin/stdout interface; it will be quicker  
for me to roll my own solution than tool up and build using those.

BTW, what I'm trying to do is detect who (if anyone) is the active  
user, defined as not just logged in but "owning" the display and  
keyboard for the time being, so if you've got a smarter way of doing  
this, please tell me. (Obviously, this is a multi-user system we're  
talking about). This information is definitely accessible in the file  
mentioned above, but if there's a better way of getting it, I'm all  
ears.

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Phil Hudson                  http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz
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