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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting arguments in bash Post 302582769 by elginmulizwa on Sunday 18th of December 2011 05:41:22 AM
Old 12-18-2011
Java arguments in bash
this script moves all the doc files to a specified directory....i have managed to put an argument but the problem im facing is puting the full path where the scripts are moving to for example i want to run the script like this below

./loo -d then path where im moving the files (i.e ./loo -d the second argument where files are moving to)

this is my code

Code:
#!/bin/bash
From="/home/elg19/lone/doc"
To="/home/elg19/documents"

if [ $1 = -d ]; then
cd "$From"
for i in pdf txt doc; do
  find . -type f -name "*.${i}" -exec mv "{}" "$To" \;
done
fi

Last edited by radoulov; 12-18-2011 at 07:10 AM.. Reason: Code tags!
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dhelp_parse

dhelp_parse(8)							Debian Linux manual						    dhelp_parse(8)

NAME

       dhelp_parse - Debian online help parser

SYNOPSIS

       dhelp_parse [ -r | -i | -a doc-base_file | -d doc-base_file ]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is used by package developers to register the documents included in a package.

       In  most cases it is called by install-docs (see doc-base package), which in turn is called from the postinst and prerm scripts of a Debian
       package.

       An index of the registered documents is written in the directory /usr/share/doc/HTML

OPTIONS

       -h,--help
	      Displays the help page.

       -a     Adds the documentation found in the given doc-base files to the dhelp database.

       -d     Deletes the documentation found in the given doc-base files from the dhelp database.

       -i     Does an incremental update of the documents index for all documentation added with the -a switch after the last index update.

       -r     Ignored, kept for compatibility.

PACKAGE DEVELOPERS

       You should usually rely on install-docs to do the work for you, but if for some reason you want to use  dhelp_parse  directly  (not  recom-
       mended!), you have to call it like this:

   postinst
       if [ -x /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse ]; then
	 dhelp_parse -a /var/lib/doc-base/documents/foo
       fi

   prerm
       if [ -x /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse ]; then
	 dhelp_parse -d /var/lib/doc-base/documents/foo
       fi

       Note that /var/lib/doc-base/documents/foo has to be a valid doc-base file (see doc-base documentation).

SEE ALSO

       dhelp(1), install-docs(8)

AUTHOR

       This package was written by Esteban Manchado Velazquez (zoso@debian.org).

Debian								    29 May 2008 						    dhelp_parse(8)
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