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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting a portion of a data file with identifier Post 302378727 by Spartukus on Tuesday 8th of December 2009 03:38:42 PM
Old 12-08-2009
Hey guys keep having problems with the below script syntax error near unpexpected token '0' exit 0 I have two directorys backups and Usr in the usr i have sub dir's wp,ss,pic which i would like to back up (copy those directorys to the backups directory) with user acknowledgement from command line. I would then want the ability to restore those files back to the Usr from Backups so the code is below if any one could be so kind to help me out, would be much appreciated. Thanks
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo "please choose backup or restore"
read bor case "$bor" in
backup )
ls -d Usr/*
echo "please choose directory to backup (example wp,ss,pic)"
read dir
case "$dir" in
wp )
echo "word processor directory backedup"
cp -r Usr/wp Backups/wp;;
ss )
echo "word processor directory backedup"
cp -r Usr/ss Backups/ss;;
pic )
echo "word processor directory backedup"
cp -r Usr/pic Backups/pic;;
restore )
ls -d Backups/*
echo "please choose directory to restore (wp,ss,pic)"
read bdir
case "$bdir" in
wp )
echo "word processor directory restored"
cp -r Backups/wp Usr/wp;;
ss )
echo "word processor directory restored"
cp -r Backups/ss Usr/ss;;
pic )
echo "word processor directory restored"
cp -r Backups/pic Usr/pic;;
exit 0
 

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ps_get_value

PS_GET_VALUE(3) 							 1							   PS_GET_VALUE(3)

ps_get_value - Gets certain values

SYNOPSIS

       float ps_get_value (resource  $psdoc, string  $name, [float  $modifier])

DESCRIPTION

       Gets several values which were set by ps_set_value(3). Values are by definition float values.

	The parameter $name can have the following values.

	      o fontsize - The size of the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter $modifier.

	      o font - The currently active font itself.

	      o imagewidth - The width of the image whose id is passed in the parameter $modifier.

	      o imageheight - The height of the image whose id is passed in the parameter $modifier.

	      o capheight - The height of a capital M in the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter $modifier.

	      o ascender - The ascender of the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter $modifier.

	      o descender - The descender of the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter $modifier.

	      o italicangle - The italicangle of the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter $modifier.

	      o underlineposition  - The underlineposition of the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter $modi-
		fier.

	      o underlinethickness - The underlinethickness of the currently active font or the font whose identifier is passed in parameter $mod-
		ifier.

	      o textx - The current x-position for text output.

	      o texty - The current y-position for text output.

	      o textrendering - The current mode for text rendering.

	      o textrise - The space by which text is risen above the base line.

	      o leading - The distance between text lines in points.

	      o wordspacing - The space between words as a multiple of the width of a space char.

	      o charspacing - The space between chars. If charspacing is != 0.0 ligatures will always be dissolved.

	      o hyphenminchars - Minimum number of chars hyphenated at the end of a word.

	      o parindent - Indention of the first n line in a paragraph.

	      o numindentlines - Number of line in a paragraph to indent if parindent != 0.0.

	      o parskip - Distance between paragraphs.

	      o linenumberspace - Overall space in front of each line for the line number.

	      o linenumbersep - Space between the line and the line number.

	      o major - The major version number of pslib.

	      o minor - The minor version number of pslib.

	      o subminor, revision - The subminor version number of pslib.

PARAMETERS

	      o $psdoc
		- Resource identifier of the postscript file as returned by ps_new(3).

	      o $name
		- Name of the value.

	      o $modifier
		- The parameter $modifier specifies the resource for which the value is to be retrieved. This can be the id of a font or an image.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns the value of the parameter or FALSE.

SEE ALSO

       ps_set_value(3).

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