02-27-2002
awk can also make it.
in the portion of scripts below I look fore some core* archive files and delete the oldest:
ls -r core* | awk '{ fname=$1 } END{ system("rm " fname) }'
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zip_name_locate
ZIP_NAME_LOCATE(3) Library Functions Manual ZIP_NAME_LOCATE(3)
NAME
zip_name_locate - get index of file by name
LIBRARY
libzip (-lzip)
SYNOPSIS
#include <zip.h>
int zip_name_locate(struct zip *archive, const char *fname, int flags);
DESCRIPTION
The zip_name_locate function returns the index of the file named fname in archive. If archive does not contain a file with that name, -1
is returned. The are specified by or'ing the following values, or 0 for none of them.
ZIP_FL_NOCASE Ignore case distinctions.
ZIP_FL_NODIR Ignore directory part of file name in archive.
RETURN VALUES
zip_name_locate returns the index of the file named fname or -1, if archive does not contain an entry of that name.
ERRORS
The zip_name_locate function fails and sets the error information to ZIP_ER_NOENT if no entry of the name fname is found in the archive.
If one of the arguments is invalid, the error information is set to ZIP_ER_INVAL.
SEE ALSO
libzip(3), zip_get_name(3)
AUTHORS
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>
NiH October 4, 2006 ZIP_NAME_LOCATE(3)