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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script Help Post 302245886 by otheus on Saturday 11th of October 2008 01:10:36 PM
Old 10-11-2008
Sorry for the delay. Don't know why your post missed our attention.

1. Six letters or more:
Code:
if echo $filename | sed -e '/....../' ; then
  # filename is ok
else
  print "Filename must be 6 or more characters in length!"
fi

Using a similar technique you can check for other things, such as spaces, invalid characters, etc.

3. Convert to upper case:
Code:
filename=`echo $filename | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'`

Note: someone please check me on this: I've not used tr in a long time.

Finally, #2:
Code:
let done=0
while [ $done == 0 ]; do 
  # YOUR CODE ABOVE

  read -p "Are you done yet? (Y/N) " yesno
  if [ "$yesno" == "Y" -o "$yesno" == "y" ]; then
     let done=1
  fi
done

 

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transition-check

TRANSITION-CHECK(1)                                                                                                            TRANSITION-CHECK(1)

NAME

       transition-check - check a package list for involvement in transitions

SYNOPSIS

       transition-check --help|--version

       transition-check [-f|--filename=FILENAME] [source package list]

DESCRIPTION

       transition-check checks whether any of the listed source packages are involved in a transition for which uploads to unstable are currently
       blocked.

       If neither a filename nor a list of packages is supplied, transition-check will use the source package name from debian/control.

OPTIONS

       -f, --filename=filename
           Read a source package name from filename, which should be a Debian package control file or .changes file, and add that package to the
           list of packages to check.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status indicates whether any of the packages examined were found to be involved in a transition.

       0   Either --help or --version was used, or none of the packages examined was involved in a transition.

       1   At least one package examined is involved in a current transition.

LICENSE

       This code is copyright by Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>, all rights reserved.

       This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
       version 2 or later.

AUTHOR

       Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>

Debian Utilities                                                    2013-12-23                                                 TRANSITION-CHECK(1)
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