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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [bash]Stripping lines from a list Post 302179970 by noratx on Saturday 29th of March 2008 08:10:52 AM
Old 03-29-2008
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.
 

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gst-complete-0.8(1)						   User Commands					       gst-complete-0.8(1)

NAME

       gst-complete-0.8, gst-complete - perform bash completion for gst-launch command lines

SYNOPSIS

       complete -Cgst-complete-0.8 gst-launch

       gst-complete [--gst-list-mm] [--gst-mm=string] [--print]

DESCRIPTION

       gst-complete-0.8 enables bash to provide context-sensitive tab completion for gst-launch command lines. See gst-launch(1) for the syntax of
       gst-launch command lines.

       You must have a version of bash that supports programmable completion. Such versions of bash provide the complete built-in command.

       gst-complete is a wrapper script that runs the latest installed version of gst-complete-X.X. For example, if both gst-complete-0.7 and gst-
       complete-0.8 are installed on your system, gst-complete runs gst-complete-0.8.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported by gst-complete-0.8 and gst-complete:

       --help	       Display detailed usage message. You can also use -? to specify this option.

       The following options are supported by gst-complete only:

       --gst-list-mm   List found major/minor versions. This option displays the versions that are available.

       --gst-mm=string Force  major/minor  version.  This  option  enables you to specify a specific version to run, if you do not want to run the
		       default version.

       --print	       Print wrapped command line. This option displays the command that will be run, and then runs the command.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Generating the Registry of Available Plugins by Running gst-compprep

       Run the following command in your .bash_profile or other appropriate place:

       example% complete -C gst-complete-0.8 gst-launch

       Example 2: Running the Wrapper Script and Displaying the Command Name

       example% gst-complete --print
       /usr/bin/gst-complete-0.8

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gst-complete-0.Executable for bash completion for gst-launch

       /usr/bin/gst-complete   Wrapper script that runs the latest installed version of gst-complete-X.X

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-media		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gst-compprep(1), gst-feedback(1), gst-inspect(1), gst-launch(1), gst-launch-ext(1), gst-md5sum(1), gst-register(1), gst-thumbnail(1),  gst-
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NOTES

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       Updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

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