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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting simple while loop Post 302150976 by bakunin on Thursday 13th of December 2007 07:16:39 AM
Old 12-13-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ali560045
bakunnin i still didnt understood wat u saying
Which part of it? My posting was discussing 4 different points numbered 1-4. Could you at least be so kind to explain which part of it you didn't understand?

Furthermore i provided a script as example - which part of it is unclear?

Why don't you just *try*, for crying out loud, the script i provided and observe what it is doing? First let it run as it is, twice, and look at the output file generated. Then uncomment the now commented second "exec..." statement and comment out the first one instead. Now let the script run again, twice - what is the output file looking like now?

I can help you writing scripts, but i can't do the reading of man-pages for you and i can't do the understanding for you.

As a last and more personal point:

Could you please skip that leet-speak and try to use a plain and civilized English as does the rest of us? English is not my native language and I'm far from perfection (in fact farther than i would like to be), but even a bad english speaker like me is able to avoid grammatical cardinal sins like writing "u" for "you" or "r" for "are". Honestly, i find it quite hard to figure out what "the o/p is" means, i have enough problems to think about even without having to ponder what "imp" means in "u r saying something imp" and so on... If you deem our answers so low in value that, to solicit them, even the effort of writing some extra characters is to be saved, than what reason do we have to give the answers you are seeking in first place?

We are not a bunch of wannabe-gangers here, most of us are hard-working professionals. This is not only showing in the things we do, but also in the ways how we do them and the way we talk about what we do (in one word: our culture). Please either blend into this group - including the language you use here - or do not try to get us to do work for you.

bakunin
 

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debconf-getlang

DEBCONF-GETLANG(1)						      Debconf							DEBCONF-GETLANG(1)

NAME

       debconf-getlang - extract a language from a templates file

SYNOPSIS

	debconf-getlang lang master [translation]
	debconf-getlang --stats master translation [...]

DESCRIPTION

       Note: This utility is deprecated; you should switch to using the po-debconf package.

       This program helps make and manage translations of debconf templates.  There are basically three situations in which this program might be
       called:

       A translation is just being started.
	   You want to provide the translator with a file they can work on that has the English fields from your templates file, plus blank Field-
	   ll fields for the target language that they can fill in.

	   To do this, run the program with first parameter being the code for the language that is being translated to, and the second parameter
	   being the filename of the English templates file.

       A translation is well under way.
	   You have changed some English text, or added more items to your templates file, and you want to send the translators a file with the
	   English text plus their current translations (or you are the translator, and you want to generate such a file for your own use).

	   To accomplish this, run the program with the first parameter being the the code for the language that is being translated to, the
	   second parameter being the filename of the master English templates file, and the third parameter being the filename of the current
	   translated file.

	   When run this way, the program is smart enough to notice fuzzy translations. For example a fuzzy Description will be output as
	   Description-<lang>-fuzzy, and a new, blank Description-<lang> will be added.  Translators should remove the -fuzzy fields as they
	   correct the fuzzy translations.

       Checking the status of a translation
	   To check the status of a translation, use the --status flag, and pass the english template file as the first parameter, and all the
	   other translated templates after that. It will output statistics for each of them. For example:

	     debconf-getlang --stats debian/templates debian/templates.*

NOTE

       Note that the text in the generated templates may be word-wrapped by debconf.

SEE ALSO

       debconf-mergetemplate(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

								    2012-09-10							DEBCONF-GETLANG(1)
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