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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check that passed parameters all have the same extension? Post 302410924 by cs03dmj on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 08:50:40 AM
Old 04-07-2010
MySQL How to check that passed parameters all have the same extension?
Code:
$ ls
monkey.txt
banana.csv
tree.txt
$ myscript monkey.txt tree.txt
All extensions ARE alike.
$ myscript *txt
All extensions ARE alike.
$ myscript monkey.txt banana.csv
All extensions are NOT alike.
$ myscript *
All extensions are NOT alike.

My brain has given up; what's the simplest shell script needed to produce the above output, i.e. iterate through positional parameters, comparing their file extensions for similarity?

I know it's wrong, but here's my thought process:

Code:
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
        for (( i=1; i<$#; i++ )); do
                if [ "$i##*.}" != "$i+1##*.}" ]; then
                        echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
                        exit 1
                fi
        done
fi
echo "All extensions ARE alike."

Thanks in advance...

---------- Post updated at 01:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:00 PM ----------

Nearly there! Now I just need it to work when files are without an extension, too (currently this would say they are NOT alike):

Code:
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
        for (( i=1; i<$#; i++ )); do
                j=`expr $i + 1`
                if eval [ '${'${i}'##*.}' != '${'${j}'##*.}' ]; then
                        echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
                        exit 1
                fi
        done
fi
echo "All extensions ARE alike."



---------- Post updated at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:21 PM ----------

Huzzah! Messy, but functional:

Code:
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
        for (( i=1; i<$#; i++ )); do
                if [ "$(eval echo '${'$i'}' | sed 's/^[^\.]*//')" != "$(eval echo '${'$((i+1))'}' | sed 's/^[^\.]*//')" ]; then
                        echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
                        exit 1
                fi
        done
fi
echo "All extensions ARE alike."

Last edited by cs03dmj; 04-07-2010 at 09:59 AM..
 

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