No offence taken. =)
I'm pretty much a newbie, so writing hideous scripts is what you do at the beginning (i think).
As you mentioned, i was only showing a part of the total script.
Here is the whole funcion in the script (the rest is working as it should).
Also, the script that i wrote here in the beginning, is a snippet from a testing script that i used. Before i make major changes in the original script (that worked before i started to change it from backing up my MySQL database to backing up my home directory), i make minor testing scripts just to see if the changes works as i want the to. Because of that, some names (like the list names) may not be the same.
Code:
list() {
list=/tmp/beacon.list
$ncftpls -u <user> -p <password> -x "-l1" <server> > $list
cat $list | nl
echo "Choose file: "
read file
list_to_var=`cat $list | nl | grep $file | sed -e "s/$file//g" -e "s/ //g" | column -t`
echo $list_to_var
break
$ncftpget -u <user> -p <password> <host> /tmp backup/homes/$list_to_var
echo "Dumpfile retreived."
echo "Do you want to restore it? Y/N: "
read unpack_
case $unpack_ in
[yY]*)
echo "unpacking..."
$bunzip2 $dump_path$list_to_var
tarfile=tarfile.txt
echo "$list_to_var" > $dump_path$tarfile
tar_var="`awk '/tar/{gsub(/.bz2/, "")};{print}' $dump_path$tarfile`"
echo $tar_var
break
$tar -tf $dump_path$tar_var > $dump_path$tar_list.txt
tar_list=$dump_path$tar_list.txt
cat $tar_list | awk -F/ '{print $1 "/" $2}' | nl
echo "Choose which directory to extract by entering the correponding number or * for everything : "
read tar_path
echo "Enter the path where you want to unpack"
echo "Eg. '/home', '/tmp/' or '.'"
echo "Enter path :"
read extract_path
case $tar_path in
'')
$tar -xvf $dump_path$tar_var -C $extract_path;;
*)
extract=`cat $tar_list | awk -F/ '{print $1 "/" $2}' | nl | grep $tar_path| sed -e "s/$tar_path//g" -e "s/ //g" | column -t`
$tar -xvf $dump_path$tar_var $extract -C $extract_path;;
esac
echo "The directory/s $tar_list unpacked to $extract_path!"
echo "Do you want to delete the file $tar_var? Y/N: "
read delete_tar_var
case $delete_tar_var in
[yY]*)
rm $dump_path$tar_var
echo "$tar_var deleted!";;
[nN]*)
echo "";;
esac
unpack;;
[nN]*)
echo "Ok, lets quit!" ;;
esac
rm $dump_path$list
rm $dump_pathtarfile.txt
rm $dump_pathtar_list.txt
}
The paths and programs are entered in the beginning of the total script (like ncftpls=/usr/local/bin/ncftpls), in case you would wonder why i use $ncftpls and such.
Hey all
i am pretty new to awk... here my problem.
My input is something like this:
type: NSR client;
name: pegasus;
save set: /, /var, /part, /part/part2, /testpartition,
/foo/bar,... (9 Replies)
hi all,
i'm very new to scripting and have the folllowing issue. I have used a few commands to get a list of numbers, but I need to strip away the non-numeric ones, and then need a total of all values. any ideas?
root@unixserver # cat myfile | awk '{print $8}'| sort -rn
1504
1344
896
704... (2 Replies)
I want to create a temp file which is named based on a search string. The search string may contain spaces or characters that aren't supposed to be used in filenames so I want to strip those out.
My thought was to use 'tr' with but the result is the opposite of what I want:
$ echo "test... (5 Replies)
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Hello,
I was wondering if there was an easy way to take lines from a single-column list, and remove them from a second single-column list. For example, I want to remove the contents of list 1 from list 2. How would I do this?
Contents of list 1:
server1a
server2b
server3c
server4a... (2 Replies)
In this post I came across the cited construct. It works! while ... { list; } does not.
man bash does not mention it (or, better, I didn't see it).
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Hi everyone,
This is an exemple of inpout.txt file (a "," delimited text file which can be open as csv file):
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Hi all,
I didn't use SED for 20 years and was never an expert. So my current knowledge is about zero. Please be patient with me. I'm neither a native speaker.
I have a huge dictionary file and want the rest of the lines stripped. Everything after (and including) the "/" should be stripped. I... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hinnerk2005
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)