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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting finding correct directories Post 302338954 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 10:41:47 AM
Old 07-29-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vjasai
I have directories like V00R01,V00R02,V01R01,V01R02 in a directory
where V is version and R is a release. basically I need to set base directory and current directory. Under a version there can be any number of releases and there can be number of versions also.
V00R01...V00R50..so on
also,
V00R01...V00R50.. V01R01..V01R50 ...

Case 1: V00R30 and V00R31, V00R32.. in this case.. i have to set base to V00R31 and current to V00R32. (latest directory as current and previous one as base)

Code:
set -- V*R*
shift $(( $# - 2 ))
base=$1
current=$2

Quote:
Case 2: There can be more versions .. like V00R30, V00R31, V00R32 and
V01R01, V01R02,V01R03.. then in this case.. i need to set base to V00R32 and Current directory to V01R03. (here also latest of V01 to current and latest of V00 to base)

Code:
set -- V00R*
shift $(( $# - 1 ))
base=$1
set -- V01R*
shift $(( $# - 1 ))
current=$1

 

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ltsp-update-kernels

ltsp-update-kernels(8)					      System Manager's Manual					    ltsp-update-kernels(8)

NAME

       ltsp-update-kernels - Copy LTSP chroot kernels to TFTP directories.

SYNOPSIS

       ltsp-update-kernels [OPTION] [CHROOT...]

DESCRIPTION

       ltsp-update-kernels  copies  the  boot/ directory from LTSP chroots to the TFTP directories in order to make them available to PXE clients.
       Copying kernels from inside NBD images is also supported.  CHROOT can be a full path or a subdirectory of the /opt/ltsp base directory, and
       if it's unset, all available chroots are processed.

OPTIONS

       -b --base=
	      The LTSP base directory. Defaults to "/opt/ltsp".

       -h --help
	      The application help page.

SEE ALSO

       ltsp-build-client(8), ltsp-update-image(8), ltsp-update-sshkeys(8).

AVAILABILITY

       ltsp-update-kernels is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/ltsp.

MAN PAGE AUTHOR

       Copyright  2012 Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg@gmail.com>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later
       version.

								    2012-05-29						    ltsp-update-kernels(8)
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