It looks like you haven't used command line parameters yet. For a useful improvement, try replacing <archivefilename> with $1 and <packagename> with $2 in the script, representing the first and second parameters on the command line. The call the script as follows (assuming it's named "download_archive" download_archive "archive name" "packege name"
Then you won't have to use the vim search-and-replace for each package/archive combination. Thomas Sapp wrote: > Hello, > My name is Tom, I am new to PLUG and am hoping to find time to start > attending meetings. Until then I hope to find some interesting > discussions here on this mailing list. > > I've recently been playing around with creating a working LFS system and > have been having lots of fun at learning about all that goes in to > putting a working Linux system together. Now that I am almost done with > the BLFS book, I was wondering if I might get some critique on my first, > what I would consider, real shell script. I wrote it while going > through the process of downloading and compiling the various packages I > wanted/needed on my system. I basically downloads the needed archives, > extracts them, runs the commands provided, and then removes the > extracted directory and downloaded archive from the system. I added a > some easily replaceable placeholders that I can us the %s option in vim > on. So far it has worked fairly well for me. The code for it can be > found at http://pastebin.com/ESjVCmTF. > > I am looking forward to hearing any advice regarding this and also > participating in this mailing list in the future. >
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