#!/bin/bash # make temp file with just the key/value pairs (strip blank lines, comments, eof marker) records=$(mktemp) tr -d "\r" | awk '!/^$|^#|^\[/' > "$records" # make temp assembly source file that represents the binary OKVS data structure source=$(mktemp) (echo "*=0" # dummy program counter for assembler echo "!le16 $(wc -l <"$records"), 0" # OKVS header while IFS="=" read -r key value; do echo "!byte ${#key}+${#value}+3" # OKVS record length echo "!byte ${#key}" # OKVS key length echo "!text \"$key\"" # OKVS key echo "!byte ${#value}" # OKVS value length echo "!text \"$value\"" # OKVS value done < "$records") > "$source" # assemble temp source file into binary OKVS data structure, then output that out=$(mktemp) acme -o "$out" "$source" cat "$out" # clean up rm "$out" rm "$source" rm "$records"