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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with test command Post 302284462 by cfajohnson on Thursday 5th of February 2009 02:48:41 PM
Old 02-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by sussane
Thanks cfajohnson and Franklin52


Thanks for the response.

Jhon:
could u please explain me the code which u gave.

Please put code inside [code] tags.
Quote:
Code:
if [ -f "$j" ]; then
  case $j in
     C*20071231*.log) ;; // I am confuesed here as there is no opening brace here


There is no closing brace, either; there is a closing parenthesis. The opening parenthesis is optional.
Quote:
Code:
     *) // What is the purpose of this brace here
         cp "$base/*.*" "$base1" ;;
  esac
fi

Please help me to understand this.

Read your shell's man page for the case statement.
 

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gen-ctl-io

GEN-CTL-IO(1)							      libctl							     GEN-CTL-IO(1)

NAME

       gen-ctl-io - generate C interface code for libctl control files

SYNOPSIS

       gen-ctl-io [OPTION]... [spec-file]

DESCRIPTION

       gen-ctl-io  generates  C  code  to import/export the input/output variables used in a libctl control file.  gen-ctl-io generates files like
       ctl-io.h and ctl-io.c.  These files define global variables, data structures, and functions for the input/output  variables,  classes,  and
       function interfaces defined in the spec-file argument, automating the interaction between C and Guile.

       The  arguments  such  as  --code and --header are used to control whether ctl-io.c or ctl-io.h, etcetera, are generated.  If no argument is
       specified then both of these files are generated by default, for backwards compatibility.

       libctl is a free library to aid in interfacing scientific software with the GNU Guile scripting and extension language.	Documentation  for
       it may be found online at the libctl home page: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/libctl

OPTIONS

       --code Generate C (or C++) source code to implement the Guile interface functions.  The default output file name is ctl-io.c (in C) or ctl-
	      io.cpp (in C++).

       --header
	      Generate the header file declaring the interface data types and functions. The default output file name is ctl-io.h (in C)  or  ctl-
	      io.hpp (in C++).

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       -o file
	      Use file as the output file name instead of the defaults (above).

BUGS

       Send bug reports to S. G. Johnson, stevenj@alum.mit.edu.

AUTHORS

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