You can convert a number into a letter with: echo -e \\octal, if you think this might help. Joel On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:32:47AM -0500, Ian wrote: > So far my searching hasn't turned up anything useful. > > Is there a quick way to increment a letter variable in a bash script? > > I am creating a script to automatically transfer files in a given > directory by creating a dated folder (mkdir $(date -I), copy files into > new folder and create a .log of the files using the output of 'ls'. > > The issue here is that in order to stick to an existing convention, more > than one transfer in the same day has a '-a' or '-b' appended to the > directory and .log file names. > > I've not been able to come up with a clever way to automatically > increment the letter to be appended, for example if '-a' has already > been taken for a given day. It's not the checking part that I have > trouble with, it's incrementing a _letter_. > > Before I create some ugly monstrosity of a loop to do this, can anyone > offer any hints? Scripting has never been my strong suit...I can read > scripts quite well, but tend to "complexify" simple tasks due to lack of > experience. > -- > Linux SxS [http://sxs.webhop.net] > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
