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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting need help creating a shell that generates another shell Post 302322177 by pludi on Wednesday 3rd of June 2009 04:10:44 AM
Old 06-03-2009
If you really insist on manually creating a script for each set of files, you can create a global caller script by running
Code:
echo '#!/bin/sh' > /path/to/main.sh
for script in /path/to/scripts/*.sh
do
    echo "sh ${script}" >> /path/to/main.sh
done
chmod 0700 /path/to/main.sh

However, I still think that for a repetitive task like that a more general script would be better suited. If you can give more information on the task I could (try) to help you with it.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

shar

SHAR(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   SHAR(1)

NAME

     shar -- create a shell archive of files

SYNOPSIS

     shar file ...

DESCRIPTION

     shar writes an sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
     Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).

     shar is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).

SEE ALSO

     compress(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(1)

BUGS

     shar makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters.

EXAMPLES

     To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick:

	   cd ls
	   shar `find . -print` |  mail -s "ls source" rick

     To recreate the program directory:

	   mkdir ls
	   cd ls
	   ...
	   <delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
	   ...
	   sh archive

HISTORY

     The shar command appears in 4.4BSD.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

     It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files.  It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them
     through sh(1).  Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command:

	   egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file

4.4BSD								   June 6, 1993 							    4.4BSD
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