Might be better to test the return code rather than existence of file - this would pick up errors like unable to overwrite existing file because of permissions, lack of space etc, also I'd like a specific error message - but them I'm just picky
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
while read sourcefile destfile
do
cp $sourcefile $destfile
Code:
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "$destfile copied successfully from $sourcefile"
else
echo "ERROR: failed to copy $destfile from $sourcefile"
fi
done < /tmp/sample.lst
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
natbraille
NATBRAILLE(1) General Commands Manual NATBRAILLE(1)NAME
natbraille - French braille typesetting
SYNOPSIS
natbraille -g | --gui
natbraille [options] -f source -t dest
DESCRIPTION
NAT is braille translation engine that can translate into transcribed French braille:
Text documents
OpenOffice 1 and 2 documents, including equations.
Microsoft Word documents saved as text, whose equations have been converted to
mathml with MathType
Simple HTML documents which respect norms.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-?, -h, --help
Show summary of options.
-c, --config <sourcefile>
Set configuration file.
-f, --from <sourcefile>
Set source file.
--fi-braille-table
Set braille table.
--fi-hyphenation true|false
Use hyphenation.
--fi-hyphenation-dirty true|false
Use dirty hyphenation.
--fi-line-length number
Set line length
--fi-litt-abbreg true|false
Transcribe as abbreged
--fi-litt-transcribe true|false
Transcribe litterary contents
--fi-math-transcribe true|false
Transcribe math contents
--fi-math-use-trigo-notation true|false
Use special trigonometric notation
--fi-music-transcribe true|false
Transcribe musical contents.
-g, --gui
Loads graphical interface
--ge-log-level 1|2|3
Debug verbosity
--in-encoding encoding
Input file encoding.
--out-encoding encoding
Output file encodoutg.
-q, --quiet
No console output
-t, --to <destfile>
Sets destination file.
AUTHOR
natbraille was written by Bruno Mascret <bmascret@free.fr> and the Nat team.
This manual page was written by Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
October 18, 2009 NATBRAILLE(1)
06-22-2006
