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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to build a command in a script Post 302254642 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 4th of November 2008 10:00:44 PM
Old 11-04-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by babajuma
Hi All

I am trying to build a script that will take data from a tab separated file and use that to split up a quicktime file. So far the code is as follows

#!/bin/sh
#test parsing of data

#fix excel file output returns
cat $1 | tr "\r" "\n" > $1.fix

There's no need for cat:

Code:
tr "\r" "\n" < "$1" > "$1.fix"

Quote:
printf "\n" >> $1.fix
mv $1.fix $1

Quote your variables, or the script will fail if any filenames contain spaces.

Code:
printf "\n" >> "$1.fix"
mv "$1.fix" "$1"

Quote:


FILE=$1

coffee_out=""
coffee_fill="‑splitAt"
coffee_end="‑self‑contained ‑o output.mov $2"
textArray[0]="" # hold text
c=0 # counter
# read whole file in loop

while read c_out line
do
if test $c_out #check there is a value especial for /n for the fix from excel

Code:
if test -n "$c_out"

Quote:
then
textArray[$c]="$c_out $line" # store line
c=$(expr $c + 1) # increase counter by 1

There's no need for expr in the standard UNIX shell:
Code:
c=$(( $c + 1 ))

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

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       Pod::2::DocBook DocBook documentation

       DocBook related links: <http://www.docbook.org/>, <http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/>,
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AUTHOR

       Alligator Descartes <descarte@symbolstone.org> wrote a module called Pod::2::DocBook, which was later maintained by Jan Iven
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       Nandu Shah <nandu@zvolve.com> wrote Pod::DocBook, which is unrelated to the previous module (even though they both perform the same
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       Jozef Kutej <jkutej@cpan.org> renamed the module to Pod::2::DocBook because Nandus version was buried in the CPAN archive as an
       "UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE".

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004, Nandu Shah <nandu@zvolve.com>

       Copyright 2008, Jozef Kutej <jkutej@cpan.org>

       This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself

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