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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Case statements and creating a file database Post 302515129 by bakunin on Tuesday 19th of April 2011 06:49:33 AM
Old 04-19-2011
Before starting to work on the logic: there are several syntactical errors in your script-attempt you should correct.

Without guarantee for completeness, use "man bash" and "known good" bash scripts (from this site or the net) to find out:

- how is a "if..then..else...fi"-block constructed?

- how is a "case..esac" constructed?

- are spaces in variable assignments allowed? (i.e. is "x=.." and "x = .." the same?)

- are all control structures properly closed ("(" needs a ")", "'" a closing counterpart, etc.)

Post your rewritten script and we will continue.

bakunin
 

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DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)					      Debconf						  DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)

NAME
debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files SYNOPSIS
debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates DESCRIPTION
Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf's po2debconf program. This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified files will be read in, merged, and output to standard output. This can be especially useful if you are dealing with translated template files. In this case, you might have your main template file, plus several other files provided by the translators. These files will have translated fields in them, and maybe the translators left in the english versions of the fields they translated, for their reference. So, you want to merge together all the translated templates files with your main templates file. Any fields that are unique to the translated files need to be added in to the correct templates, but any fields they have in common should be superseded by the fields in the main file (which might be more up-to-date). This program handles that case properly, just list each of the translated templates files, and then your main templates file last. OPTIONS
--outdated Merge in even outdated translations. The default is to drop them with a warning message. --drop-old-templates If a translation has an entire template that is not in the master file (and thus is probably an old template), drop that entire template. SEE ALSO
debconf-getlang(1) AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 2012-09-10 DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)
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