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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting rename Post 302182823 by bohoo on Monday 7th of April 2008 02:17:34 PM
Old 04-07-2008
rename

hi,

im doin an assignment which requires you to build a shell script to do the MS DOS style equivilant (sp?) of the rename function. What i have to do is a loop which checks the following rules and output messages (same):

Can't have anything after target
Can't have more than one dot
Can't have more than one asterisk
Doesn't exist
Must have a dot
No target

Targets consist of three parts: a dot, an asterisk and a string of filename characters. The dot is the middle one of the three. I have not started anything of yet as im stick on this first part and have little idea on how to do it. I an wondering if someone could give me a idea on how i would approach this. I have been told that a loop would be best.

Thanks
 

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sb2-logz(1)							 sb2-logz man page						       sb2-logz(1)

NAME
sb2-logz - sb2 log postprocessing tool SYNOPSIS
sb2-logz [options] < logfile DESCRIPTION
sb2-logz reads logs created by scratchbox2 and writes summaries (the log files can be really huge, and manually digging out information from them might be a time-consuming task). Logs are produced when sb2 is executed with -d (debug) or -L options (e.g. "-L info") OPTIONS
-b no blacklist: do not ignore log lines from functions like __xstat() (there is a built-in blacklist, which tries to minimize "noise" caused by various libraries and scratchbox2 itself) -B fn1,fn2,.. blacklist funcions fn1,fn2,..: ignore lines generated by the listed library calls. -d level debug mode, for debugging the script itself. -h show help text. -i print details about 'disabled' pathnames (unmodifed paths, because mapping was momentarily disabled) -l print long details (affects output of -i,-m,-r,-p etc) -m print details about mapped pathnames (src->dest) -N print all 'notice' messages -p print details about passed pathnames ('passed path' = not mapped) -r print reversed mappings (dest->src) -s print process statistics -v verbose mode, prints dots while reading input etc. -P file.dot write process diagram to file.dot (postprocess it with 'dot', e.g. 'dot -Tpdf file.dot >file.pdf' -E file.dot write execution diagram to file.dot (postprocess it with 'dot', e.g. 'dot -Tpdf file.dot >file.pdf' -A acct-file Read process accounting information from acct-file (enhances output of -P and -E)' BUGS
Option -A requires an accounting log, which has to be activated separately. Generation of accounting information typically requires super- user privileges (or CAP_SYS_PACCT capability on Linux). This is an system-level restriction, and not fault of scratchbox2. However, sb2-logz has some limitations: Correlating information from the accounting log is based on process ids, and the heuristics may fail if there were really many processes; The -P, -E and -A options may be less useful for longer runs. Best results are achieved if process accounting is switched on just before the scratchbox2 session is created, and switched off afterwards - and there is nothing else running on the host at the same time. SEE ALSO
sb2(1), sb2-config(1), sb2-init(1), acct(2), dot(1) ( dot belongs to the graphviz package) AUTHOR
Lauri Aarnio 2.2 17 December 2010 sb2-logz(1)
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