Programming :: Make Variable To Refer A File In A Folder?
Dec 16, 2008How can i make a variable in a bash script, to refer each file in a folder,and to switch it to the next file,until the last file of the folder?
View 2 RepliesHow can i make a variable in a bash script, to refer each file in a folder,and to switch it to the next file,until the last file of the folder?
View 2 RepliesI been using linux for a while, but I havent had the time to really learn it. Something Id like to get more familiar with is bash so here is a simple example of something I would like to do:
I have a directory full of files. For each file in the directory create a new subdirectory with each files name.
I tried this:
#im already in this directory
aaa=./*
for a in $aaa
do mkdir $a
done
One of the problems is that there are spaces () and - in the filenames so I get many subfolders with names like "-" which i don't want.
I tried stuff like:
aaa=./*
for a in $aaa
do mkdir "'"$a"'"
done
This of course also did not work.
Additional I tried just creating a folder with the name of one of the files and I got this:
mkdir: cannot create directory `(audio) - R56339.EXE': File exists
Well yeah a file exsists with that name, but I want to create a folder- why is there a conflict?
Just to be clear here are the contents of this folder:
~/Desktop/LAB/Media/Drivers - (Image Deployment)/Optiplex_GX260/XP> ls
(audio) - R56339.EXE (NIC-Onboard-Intel) - R54402.EXE
(Modem-datafax-V92) - R54403.EXE OEM_Applications
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my script has a variable which comes in the form +00.00 +0.00 -00.00 or -0.00 (the numbers can be any in that form) for any that have a + symbol I need to remove the +, but if it has a - symbol it needs to stay.
i need to make a new variable with the string from the old variable btut without any plus sign. I have tried a lot of different ways with no success, each thing I tried either left the + or removed the entire string. I think this should work but doesn't
foo=+12.40
bar=${foo#+}
Initially I thought - use a for loop with ls in it:
Code:
However this causes lots of problems (folders have extensions, I have duplicate folders, the names with spaces create a folder for each element of the name).
The contents of the folder is basically movies (some with subtitles). Some of the names have things like (original) or CD1 CD2 in them.
What does stage1 and stage2 refer to in grub folder.
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For example:
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Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).
I have a program I am writing where I have a for loop and I want to make it substitute the variable twice like:
for ((i=0;i<5;i++)) do
echo $"$i"
done
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How can I make radiolist dialog which content so many options what is the value of the variable?Quote:
echo "How many options?"
read=VAR
dialog --title "sdf" --backtitle "sdff" --radiolist "ffdsfsd" 15 60 5 "1" "first" on "2" "second" off "3" "third" off "4" "fourth" off etc..
I must explode dialog in loop and add options? or something like that?
My script.
This is may script:
Code:
Problem: Output file doest not exclude the values in grep -av
I made 2 files which are different from the program above one is temp1.h and another is temp2.c to understand how extern is used. So here is temp1.h
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#include<stdlib.h>
typedef struct node * bond;
extern int jk;
and temp2.c is
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#include<stdio.h>
#include<temp1.h>
struct node {
int data;
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I had declared jk in temp1.h as an extern int so why can I not initialize it in temp2.c?
There is the Archive::Zip I think I can use with Perl 5.10 but I don't know how. I don't want to read or write any files, just zip something in memory, with best compression, like
$text = "this is a test";
$zippedtext = &Zip($text);
sub Zip {
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I guess it's only a few lines.
I created the following.
x="top
middle
bottom"
I would like to make the following work.
while read line
do
echo $line
done
instead of importing a file I would like to use the variable $x I tried using pipes, but with no luck. My goal is to read one line at a time, but not have to export my data to another file, I would like to keep it all within one script.
I am in need of a way to check that the same file exists within two different directories using a filename as a variable. Here is the process which requires it: The script is reaches out (via ftp) and pulls down a file(s) and delete it afterwards. This is halfhazard because in the instance it doesnt pull down the file, yet still deletes it, we are up a creek. I am looking to pull it down to a temp location and then verify that file exists in the location in which it needs to be present to process before deleting it, adding a little extra layer for security. The script itself is finished.If I put a file name in manually it works perfect. I just need a way to pump the filename into the variable.
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#!/bin/bash
VARR=`cat /proc/asound/cards | grep HDMI | cut -c 1-2`
VARX="defaults.ctl.card $VARR"
VARY="defaults.pcm.card $VARR"
FILE1="alsa"
FILE2="alsa.new"
echo $VARX
echo $VARY
sed "s/defaults.ctl.card*/'$VARX'/g" $FILE1 > $FILE2
This is what I have right now. Well, I thought I knew sed, and apparently I don't... I tried writing this for someone else, and this has given me trouble, so since the user pretty much figured it out on his own, here it goes.
Say VARR=1, so VARX and VARY contain the above text, appended by 1.
What I am trying to do is replace the text "defaults.ctl.card 0" by VARX and "defaults.pcm.card 0" by VARY. The contents of FILE1 is the file being used to search for both text fields, and FILE2 is the output file. I tried using single quotes, double quotes, and a mixture of both, and no go whatsoever. So my question... What is the proper way of searching for text within a file and replacing with a variable?
I am trying to think of a logic where my file contains some data I had to read and do some processing. Issue is that file contains data multiple times. For example:
:::::::::::
var1=value1
var2=value2
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I have to read first paragraph of variables and do some processing and then move on until the end of file. Variable names are same in whole file but for each paragraph the value is different. I can't think of a logic to attain this task. How can I do it? It should be a simple bash script, but I am not able to work out.
This would eventually use some coding to make it afterwards in a format : in this format:
Quote:
AUTORUN.INF 99 1999.10.28 18:56.58
CLUF.TXT 19979 2000.1.27 7:17.18
DTPSTUB.EXE 24576 1999.8.4 0:15.52
EBE00.CD1 0 1999.10.28 18:57.0
EULA.INI 749 2000.1.12 7:14.56
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how I can search within a variable and assign the results to a new variable. I'll use the following as an example -
cars="Audi BMW Cadillac Chevy Dodge Ferrari Ford Mercedes"
list=`echo ${cars} | egrep -o '<A?+|<C+'`
with the echo command I get the following output assigned to list -
A
C
C
What I'd like to get for output is -
Audi
Cadillac
Chevy
how I could do this regardless of upper/lower case letters?
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Code:
for ((i=1;i<=$number;++i)) ; do
offset=$(($i+5))
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i want to insert message contain "!?><$%" to variable or file. This is the line i use
kk = gogo
message = "Hi! ?%$&*@"
echo $kk "$message" >! /tmp/.kk_user
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find . -name "*" > $BASE/file
if [ `more file | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
echo "dp"
fi
output of my results will always include a . (dot)which I dunwan it include the dot.
My program need to monitor the foler to know which file under the folder is being opened/created for writing. I add the folder into watch list using inotify_add_watch, when a file -- say 'AA' -- is created, I'll get the event through read api call. But the inotify_event only have file name 'AA' and a event mask. these parameters can't help me to know how the 'AA' is created/openned. So I have to scan the /proc folder to get to know how is 'AA' created/openned. I don't think this is a efficient way, especially if there are lots of files are openned/created in a short time span.
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I built up a command line which I was confident would do the job, but now can't save the results.
First I tried this:
Code:
find . -name *.php | xargs grep serialize | cut -d: -f1| sort -u | xargs sed -i s/serialize/serialise/g
but that didn't work:
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sed: illegal option -- i
so I thought I'd try using
Code:
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I have written a small script from that iam appending the output to a file.If multiple users invoke the same script or if i invoke the same script n number of times (using &), the output file(ZZ/OUT) contains messup information.
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#!/bin/bash
#
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