RE: Cygwin is saving my ass
Yeah...I use shell scripts to rename and rearrange music and podcasts on
my MP3 Players. I just don't understand why the original namers can't
get the Year before Month before Day concept.
Charles Stepp
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There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over.
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From: Morgan gangwere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:05 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on
windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into
c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\
(where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the
file in a list of oh say 3 files.)
i _could_ impliment this in vb, but bash is faster.
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Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere wrote:
Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on
windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into
c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\
(where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the
file in a list of oh say 3 files.)
i _could_ impliment this in vb, but bash is faster.
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Any chance you could share your bash script? I have some perl scripts
that are similar, but a pure bash script would be even better.
-Jason
Its somwhere in my log... the basic idea is you have 2 shell scripts,
one that does the move, another one that handles the list.
dotree.sh looks something like
--- start ---
# Get all files in cmd line:
for $f in $*
echo copy $f
fcopy $f stdout
rof
--- end --
and fcopy looks like
--- start ---
$fname = $1
#we can assume the file exists, as a glob was proabably used
# get the modify date and mimetype
$finfo={date =r=$fname +%Y_%j_%R}
$mime = {file -i $finfo}
$outname={basename $fname}
# now we copy the file
$TARGET = \cygdrive\m\backups\$DATE
echo Copying $fname to $TARGET\$finfo\$mime\$outname stdout
cp $fname $TARGET\$finfo\$mime\$outname
--- end ---
This will send the file foo.txt modified 3/14/15 at 06:06:06 to
\cygdrive\m\backups\(todays date)\15_(day number for march
14)_06:06:06\text/plain; charset=us-ascii\foo.txt
Note that this can be a VERY useful system if you have a bunch of files
and you can easily pick foo.txt modified on blah, as this script will
do it, and thats how my backup works. this MAY fail if you have multiple
foo.txts modified on the same day
note that is will fail as you cant cp files like that. but it is
possible to use this as a base -- i am recalling this from memory.
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Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
Stepp, Charles wrote: Yeah...I use shell scripts to rename and rearrange music and podcasts on my MP3 Players. I just don't understand why the original namers can't get the Year before Month before Day concept. Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -Original Message- From: Morgan gangwere [...] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:05 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin is saving my ass I wrote a nice little python script to do that... its rather long and uses libmp3. The only problem is that neither side can easily handle a title such as /home/morgan/Music/Binärpilot - You Can't Stop Da Funk/Binärpilot - Markell Fiksen.mp3 because the ä should be an umulated a. lowercase. unicode sez so. (thunderbird isnt picking up the list again! Grrr!) -- Morgan Gangwere Unknown Software -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere wrote:
Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on
windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into
c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\
(where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the
file in a list of oh say 3 files.)
i _could_ impliment this in vb, but bash is faster.
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Morgan Gangwere
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Any chance you could share your bash script? I have some perl scripts
that are similar, but a pure bash script would be even better.
-Jason
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Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on
windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into
c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\
(where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the
file in a list of oh say 3 files.)
i _could_ impliment this in vb, but bash is faster.
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Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
Dave Korn wrote: Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done? Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys. :) I think you speak for quite a lot of people here when you say that. I couldn't function in my day-to-day work without a real shell, and grep and sed, and all the gnu tools. Cygwin makes windows worth using! My opinion too... Ignazio -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
The world would get even better if there were on windows at all:-) On 3/27/08, Ignazio Di Napoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done? Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys. :) I think you speak for quite a lot of people here when you say that. I couldn't function in my day-to-day work without a real shell, and grep and sed, and all the gnu tools. Cygwin makes windows worth using! My opinion too... Ignazio -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com woody then sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Cygwin is saving my ass
Hello friends, Years ago, I heard of cygwin and installed it on a Windows PC that I occasionally had to use -- just to have access to bash and find, actually. Well, I liked it OK but viewed it as a more or less superfluous toy. I mean, why use cygwin when you can have a native, full-blown Linux system for free? Which is what I had ever since. Never really used Windows much. Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done? Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys. Well, what cygwin is saving here isn't so much my ass as my mental health. robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Cygwin is saving my ass
Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done? Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys. :) I think you speak for quite a lot of people here when you say that. I couldn't function in my day-to-day work without a real shell, and grep and sed, and all the gnu tools. Cygwin makes windows worth using! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
2008/3/25, Dave Korn: Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow VBA glue to hold it more or less together. Lotus Notes for appointments and email. Well, that's not going to change, but who helps ME to get MY work done? Enter Cygwin. Finally, things flow again. What a relief. Thanks, guys. :) I think you speak for quite a lot of people here when you say that. I couldn't function in my day-to-day work without a real shell, and grep and sed, and all the gnu tools. Cygwin makes windows worth using! Best is that I'm in a high-tech, high-profile SW-HW company which is now doing windows only, and that I'm one of three of 2500 who knows a shell, emacs, coreutils, ... At least we have 3 other perl people. Not that the Windows tools are crap. They are GUI-wise by far superior. You cannot just automate them. Cygwin saved my deadlines a lot of times so far, even if I have to convert the prototypes to MSWin32 sometimes. And the real hairy stuff is still happening on secret Linux, RTLinux or VAX boxes or even weirder self-written transputer or Shark or StrongArm firmware. My latest server had to be protoyped on cygwin for two years, until I got permission for a real linux server. When we just could have valgrind's memchecker for windows/newlib at least ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
