According to Nagle, Adrian: While burning my CPU.
>
> If there is a more appropriate place to ask about bash, please let me know.
>
> I'm starting to learn how to use bash. For a start, I want to write a
> script that copies some .html files from /floppy to a ~/public_html
> directory, change to permissions, user, and groups appropriately and delete
> the files in /floppy after this is done.
The funtion fromdos is invalid, but why do it like that, command line would
be;
cp /floppy/*.html /home/anagle/public_html
chown -R anagle /home/anagle/public_html/*.html
etc
etc
So you could start making a script for the commands above.
if [ -f /floppy/*.html ]; then
cp /floppy/*.html /home/angle/public etc etc etc
>
> Part of my attempt:
> cd /floppy
>
> if [-e /floppy/*.html]; then
> for filename in $*
> fromdos < $filename > $HOME/public_html/$filename
> chown anagle $HOME/public_html/$filename
> chgrp users $HOME/public_html/$filename
> chmod 644 $HOME/public_html/$filename
> rm $filename
> done
> else
> echo "No HTML files are located in $PWD./nNothing done."
^^^ this will not interpret a
carrige return.
echo -e "No HTML files are located in $PWD.\nNothing done."
Note the echo -e option and the slash "\" not "/"
You could make the script for "general" use, ie, with command line arguments
for source and destination directorys.
> fi
>
> I get a "token" error on the line with 'fromdos'. I was thinking of perhaps
> using 'ex' or something similar. Also, I don't know if I'm using the '$*'
> correctly.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Adrian
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