Hi,
I wrote in earlier this evening for some help with putting together an
md5sum script, and I wanted to publicly thank George, Ken, Rodos, and
Raoul for their immediate suggestions on assembling the script (basically
using a find command). I'm a little chagrined at how easy it turned out
to be, my only rationalization is that I've not done (or not had to do)
this type of thing before, but I definitely like learning about it and
expanding my skills.
Now, on a side note, I've read a few Linux/Unix books (even some chapters
on basic shell scripting) and something I'd personally like to see more of
in these books would be practical examples of piping Unix commands to
assemble into longer/more powerful programs. The books always seem to
explain the syntax, but sometimes I can't seem to find my way to put all
the small pieces together. I think it'd be great if part of a chapter in
one of these books provide maybe ten or twenty of these little chains of
piped commands, dissects their meaning, and in doing so provides good
techniques for this "Unix way of things". When I wrote the question in my
last email, in my heart, I knew that md5sum had no need to be expanded
itself, and the elegant way was to find the correct string of other
commands to make it do what I wanted, but I just didn't know how.
You guys have helped, and I'm grateful.
Thanks,
Daniel
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