Yeah ... what Mark Post and James Tilson said.
I ALWAYS keep shell scripts to the bare minimal requirements.
(I think Ed Mack posted a slick shell hack a day or two ago.
Even though BASH is a constant on Linux, I refuse to get into
a BASH trap for those occasions I use KSH or true Bourne shells.)
Tcl is one option. I like Tcl, but I constantly ask ... why?
Other scripting languages are Python and Perl. Adam T. will
tell you that Perl rocks. But it is ugly. And of course,
there is Regina! If you want stem vars, heck, do use REXX!
-- R;
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, James Melin wrote:
> Looks to me that /etc/mtab contains the most complete information.
> The only thing it doesn't show is swap and the values of fs_freq and
> fs_passno (those last two numbers in the fstab) and that can be figured out
> by rule vs actual. root getting 1 1 the rest getting 1 2 and the thigns
> like sysfs and proc by rule are 0 0.
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> Are there things like compound variables in the bash shell? Kinda like stem
> variables in rexx ? Something that can be declared and indexed through so
> that var.1 = /dev/dasda var.2 = {mountpoint} var.3 = fs type and so on?
>
> If that's possible in the bash shell then the administrivia of creating the
> script is pretty simple. I just have never seen compound variables in a
> bash shell script, so I'm not sure and someone walked off with my book.
>
> -J
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> There are two files which may be of help, and have similar syntax
> to /etc/fstab. The two files are /etc/mtab (maintained by the
> 'mount' command program) and /proc/mounts (kernel space).
> Look at them, then decide if you want to do it manually once
> or automate for repeat performance.
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> -- R;
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> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, James Melin wrote:
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> > Is thre a utility that can examine file systems that are mounted and
> > generate a new fstab?
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> > Obviously after I do that single disk copy to the multiple HFS struture I
> > need to create a new fstab
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> > Specifically I'm interested in figuring out how to examine a file system,
> > determine if it's ext3, ext2, reiser, etc,and what the attributes should
> be
> > (like acl,usr_xattr and the 1 1 or 1 2 stuff) The fstab example was
> > generated by a manual install of the sles 9 system I am now trying to
> > re-create via the single disk clone and copy to final destination method.
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