C-Munipack 1.2 / Command line tools

Configuration files

The configuration files provide extra information to customize the execution of a command. Unlike the command-line options, they can be prepared once and reused repeatedly. By means of them, the number of command-line arguments can be significantly reduced.

The configuration file consists of a set of parameters stored in a text file. Each parameter is stored on a separate line in the following form: name = value, all other lines are silently ignored. Parameter names are always case-sensitive. A hash character starts a comment string, all following content is ignored up to the end of the present line.

The -p option must be used to instruct the program to read and process the confiration file. Whenever there is a conflict between a configuration file parameter and an option of the same meaning, the option always take precedence.

Example of configuration file:

# Sample configuration file
right-ascension = 23.0811        # CR Cas
declination     = 59.5657
longitude       = 16.6667        # Brno
latitude        = 49.2167