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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script not waiting for user responce Post 302078910 by vgersh99 on Wednesday 5th of July 2006 10:53:59 AM
Old 07-05-2006
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

for dir in $(< dirlsttemp.dat); do

    echo "$dir does not exist, would you like to create it now? (y or n)"
    read responce
    if [ $responce == "y" ]; then
       mkdir $dir
    else
       echo "$dir has not been created"
    fi
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ocamlmklib

OCAMLMKLIB(1)						      General Commands Manual						     OCAMLMKLIB(1)

NAME

       ocamlmklib - generate libraries with mixed C / Caml code.

SYNOPSIS

       ocalmklib [options] files

DESCRIPTION

       The  ocamlmklib	command  facilitates the construction of libraries containing both Caml code and C code, and usable both in static linking
       and dynamic linking modes.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -cclib lib
	      C library passed to ocamlc -a or ocamlopt(1) -a only.

       -ccopt opt
	      C option passed to ocamlc(1) -a or ocamlopt(1) -a only.

       -custom
	      Disable dynamic loading.

       -dllpath dir
	      Add dir to the run-time search path for DLLs.

       -I dir Add dir to the path searched for Caml object files.

       -failsafe
	      Fall back to static linking if DLL construction failed.

       -ldopt opt
	      C option passed to the shared linker only.

       -linkall
	      Build Caml archive with link-all behavior.

       -llib  Specify a dependent C library.

       -Ldir  Add dir to the path searched for C libraries.

       -ocamlc cmd
	      Use cmd in place of ocamlc(1).

       -ocamlopt cmd
	      Use cmd in place of ocamlopt(1).

       -o name
	      Generated Caml library is named name.cma or name.cmxa.

       -oc name
	      Generated C library is named dllname.so or libname.a.

       -rpath dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Rdir  Same as -rpath.

       -verbose
	      Print commands before executing them.

       -Wl, -rpath dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Wl, -rpath -Wl dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Wl, -Rdir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Fdir  Specify a framework directory (MacOSX).

       -framework name
	      Use framework name (MacOSX).

SEE ALSO

       ocamlc(1), ocamlopt(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  August 19, 2004						     OCAMLMKLIB(1)
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