real-mdl-data

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# This script parses your moodle config.php, finds the sitedata
# directory and then changes to it. However this can't be run
# in a sub-script so there is an alias which really runs this.
#

file="config.php"

if [ -f "$file" ]
then
    path=$(grep -Po '(CFG->dataroot\s*=\s*'.*';)' $file | grep -Po "(?<=').*(?=')")
    if [ "$path" ]
    then
        if [ -d "$path" ]
        then
            echo "Going to $path"
            cd $path
        else
            echo "Path doesn't exist $path"
            echo
            echo "Make it with:"
            echo
            echo "sudo mkdir $path"
            echo "sudo chown www-data: $path"
        fi
    else
        echo "No sitedata found (must not have whitespace around the = )"
    fi
else
    echo "config.php file not found"
fi