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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Opinions/Ideas/Suggestions needed Post 302279112 by pludi on Thursday 22nd of January 2009 02:20:32 AM
Old 01-22-2009
I probably should have been more clear, I'm sorry.

The cleaning itself isn't just a rm (that's done later, after the file has been in limbo for a specified time, and can be done as root), but include creating the target directory (if needed) and moving the file(s) there. Now in order to avoid having to call su/sudo for each and every file (and possibly creating a lot of unneeded syslog messages about the context switch) I'd like to change the user context for the whole loop.

Pseudo-Code to clarify:
Code:
loop over dirs to be cleaned
    switch user context if needed
    loop over find
        check if target exists
            otherwise create
        move file to target
        make a note of (attempted) move
    mail user the changes done and those failed
    switch back to original context

 

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DH_INSTALLDEB(1)						     Debhelper							  DH_INSTALLDEB(1)

NAME
dh_installdeb - install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS
dh_installdeb [debhelperoptions] DESCRIPTION
dh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions. FILES
package.postinst package.preinst package.postrm package.prerm These maintainer scripts are installed into the DEBIAN directory. Inside the scripts, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands. package.triggers package.shlibs These control files are installed into the DEBIAN directory. package.conffiles This control file will be installed into the DEBIAN directory. In v3 compatibility mode and higher, all files in the etc/ directory in a package will automatically be flagged as conffiles by this program, so there is no need to list them manually here. package.maintscript Lines in this file correspond to dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) commands and parameters. Any shell metacharacters will be escaped, so arbitrary shell code cannot be inserted here. For example, a line such as "mv_conffile /etc/oldconffile /etc/newconffile" will insert maintainer script snippets into all maintainer scripts sufficient to move that conffile. A versioned Pre-Dependency on dpkg is needed to use dpkg-maintscript-helper(1). An appropriate Pre-Dependency is set in ${misc:Pre-Depends} ; you should make sure to put that token into an appropriate place in your debian/control file. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 8.9.0ubuntu2.1 2012-06-12 DH_INSTALLDEB(1)
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