On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, TAG wrote about, scripting hassels:
> HI ALL,
>
> I have a problem and very tedious problem. I have to convert files from
> one format to another for files in different directories:
>
> ie: /usr/home/<user>/file needs to be converted with a program "convert"
> into /home/<user>/file2 - but I have over 3000 users??
>
> Is there a simple script that will read from a file that lists all the
> users and place's their name into the right place and automates the whole
> thing??
>
> PLEASE HELP - I hate to have to do it all by hand??
convert (which i have never used) has a very explanatry man page with
examples.
A script to do over 3000 files in different directorys you would need to
write yourself, or i would imagen so, as what you ask is system dependant.
If it is a case of just converting file a to file b 3000 times that should
not be all to hard, however if you need to add or delete certain items in
each file then your problem worsens as that will not be easy at all to
automate, unless all words are the same or are in the same field in every
file.
> MANY thanks
>
> --Tonino
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