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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting to check whether a directory or filename path is valid or not Post 302273243 by arukr on Saturday 3rd of January 2009 11:54:08 AM
Old 01-03-2009
to check whether a directory or filename path is valid or not
the script on excution should take a directory path from useran a numric input and it should check indicate whether its write or not?
if the cmmd sh<script-name>,dir/path.<500>" is greater than 500 in size should be copied to dir ,temp in pwd and display the mesage'files of 2000 bytes hav been copied to dir temp'
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

jocamlmklib

JOCAMLMKLIB(1)						      General Commands Manual						    JOCAMLMKLIB(1)

NAME

       jocamlmklib - generate libraries with mixed C / Caml code.

SYNOPSIS

       ocalmklib [options] files

DESCRIPTION

       The  jocamlmklib  command facilitates the construction of libraries containing both Caml code and C code, and usable both in static linking
       and dynamic linking modes.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -cclib lib
	      C library passed to jocamlc -a or jocamlopt(1) -a only.

       -ccopt opt
	      C option passed to jocamlc(1) -a or jocamlopt(1) -a only.

       -custom
	      Disable dynamic loading.

       -dllpath dir
	      Add dir to the run-time search path for DLLs.

       -I dir Add dir to the path searched for Caml object files.

       -failsafe
	      Fall back to static linking if DLL construction failed.

       -ldopt opt
	      C option passed to the shared linker only.

       -linkall
	      Build Caml archive with link-all behavior.

       -llib  Specify a dependent C library.

       -Ldir  Add dir to the path searched for C libraries.

       -jocamlc cmd
	      Use cmd in place of jocamlc(1).

       -jocamlopt cmd
	      Use cmd in place of jocamlopt(1).

       -o name
	      Generated Caml library is named name.cma or name.cmxa.

       -oc name
	      Generated C library is named dllname.so or libname.a.

       -rpath dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Rdir  Same as -rpath.

       -verbose
	      Print commands before executing them.

       -Wl, -rpath dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Wl, -rpath -Wl dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Wl, -Rdir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Fdir  Specify a framework directory (MacOSX).

       -framework name
	      Use framework name (MacOSX).

SEE ALSO

       jocamlc(1), jocamlopt(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  August 19, 2004						    JOCAMLMKLIB(1)
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