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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell scripting newbie problem Post 302527856 by Tibor63 on Sunday 5th of June 2011 11:16:42 PM
Old 06-06-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
If you want to check the passed argument is a directory or not by using
No, the goal is to check if the contents (of the argument directory) are directories or not. I got it working with this code below, but what I don't understand is why the for/if notation I used in the top (no argument version) had to be changed so much for the bottom (argument version). I guess I'm not sure exactly what "i in *" (in the top version) is iterating over. How does it define *?

Code:
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
    d=`pwd`
    for i in * ; do
        if test -d "$d"/"$i" ; then
            echo "$i:"
        fi
    done
else
    if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
        d="$1"
        for i in "$d"/* ; do
            if test -d "$i" ; then
                echo "${i##*/}:"
            fi
        done
    fi
fi

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ocs

ocs(1)							      General Commands Manual							    ocs(1)

NAME

       ocs - creates and maintains the database for cscope on a recursive directory set

SYNOPSIS

       ocs [-x] [-f] [-q] [-u]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  briefly documents ocs , a shell script wrapper that automates the creation and maintenance of a cscope(1) database on a
       recursive set of directories. Under normal circumstances, ocs generates a cscope database on a recursive group of directories starting from
       the current working directory, before launching cscope(1) in interactive mode.

OPTIONS

       -x     Enable debugging.

       -f     Force.  Do not ask about regenerating 'TMP' lists (lists generated by ocs ), just do it; Allow the regeneration of 'CSD' (lists gen-
	      erated by cscope(1) ) lists.

       -q     Tell cscope to build a fast reverse index. Database disk space usage is doubled, but searching speed is increased.

       -u     Request that the database be updated or regenerated.

FILES

       ./cscope.rc
	      If this is an executable shell script, it will be included in the body of ocs in order  to  override  intenal  filenames	and  other
	      options. See the comments at the top of /usr/bin/ocs for more information.

BUGS

       None noted.

SEE ALSO

       cscope(1), /usr/bin/ocs.

AUTHORS

       This manpage originally prepared by Nick Rusnov <nick@grawk.net> for the Debian Project.

The Debian Project						     June 2001								    ocs(1)
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