ksh(!93) for loop with wildcard and empty directory
I'm sure this is by design, but using something like
Code:
for f in dir/*
do echo $f
done
produces unexpected (to me) results if run against an empty directory. I'd have expected it to not execute the loop, but it actually calls it with f set to 'dir/*'.
Now I know that I'm trying to protect against it:
Code:
for f in dir/*
do [ -f $f ] && #do something
I've got paranoid though, that if a file is created between the for statement and the file test, the test will succeed and the loop will execute with f = 'dir/*'. This is likely to cause interesting results
The only solution I can think of is checking the value of f:
I'm trying to figure out how to build a small shell script that will find old .shtml files in every /tgp/ directory on the server and delete them if they are older than 10 days...
The structure of the paths are like this:
/home/domains/www.domain2.com/tgp/
/home/domains/www.domain3.com/tgp/... (1 Reply)
hi, i understand that rmdir will only remove direcotry when it is empty but are there options which will also remove non-empty directories? i went to man rmdir but only find the option -p? i am on solaris. thanks (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I've been trying to get this part of my script to work for ages and now it's getting me annoyed!! So i thought a fresh group of eyes could see where i'm going wrong!
The idea is getting a directory and all its files moved to a temp folder, but similar to the rm -ir command where it... (0 Replies)
To see if a directory is has anything in it, I do this:
if ; then
# do something
fi
But surely there is a more easy-to-read and elegant way. Isn't there? (6 Replies)
I need to check if a directory is empty using an if condition
in the pseudocode below
if ; then
else
although i looked at a few forums on this topic, I left feeling a little unclear and i could not use the command successfully
what can i substitute in the if conditon above,... (2 Replies)
Hi i have a requirement to search for all files in a directory.
the files will start as file1_*,file2_*,file3_*
where the wild card character is a timestamp. so on a particular day i may get files like
file1_1103120042
file1_1102010345
file2_1101093423
file3_1103120042... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I am looking for a command to change directory in FTP server with wildcard specified. Basically this is what i am trying.
localserver# ftp remoteserver
ftp> ls
41000_42000
42000_43000
ftp> cd 41*
550 CWD failed. '41*' : no such file or directory.
Could anyone please let me know... (6 Replies)
I want to look if there is any file inside a specific directory which was modified before 2 days.
I wrote the find command, but the problem is there is one directory and that is a random directory generated by unix, so not sure on how to code for that on the find command.
find... (5 Replies)
Practice folder contains many files and im interested in extracting file which starts with abc* ghi* xyz* . I need to do variety of operations for different files. if file starts with xyz* then i need to move to some destination otherwise some other destination. I am not able to make wildcard... (15 Replies)
Hi Experts,
We are developing a script which will wait for the trigger file(with datetime in the trigger file name).
But the problem is when I use 'while' loop to wait for the file, it waits for the filename with wilcard in it that is wait for 'Trigger*.done' file. :eek:
Below is the script
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Amey Joshi
4 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
mfontset_lookup
mfontset_lookup(3m17n) The m17n Library mfontset_lookup(3m17n)NAME
mfontset_lookup - Lookup a fontset.
SYNOPSIS
MPlist * mfontset_lookup (MFontset * fontset, MSymbol script, MSymbol language, MSymbol charset)
DESCRIPTION
Lookup a fontset. The mfontset_lookup() function lookups fontset and returns a plist that describes the contents of fontset corresponding
to the specified script, language, and charset.
If script is Mt, keys of the returned plist are script name symbols for which some fonts are specified and values are NULL.
If script is a script name symbol, the returned plist is decided by language.
o If language is Mt, keys of the plist are language name symbols for which some fonts are specified and values are NULL. A key may be Mt
which means some fallback fonts are specified for the script.
o If language is a language name symbol, the plist is a FONT-GROUP for the specified script and language. FONT-GROUP is a plist whose keys
are FLT (FontLayoutTable) name symbols (Mt if no FLT is associated with the font) and values are pointers to MFont.
o If language is Mnil, the plist is fallback FONT-GROUP for the script.
If script is Mnil, the returned plist is decided as below.
o If charset is Mt, keys of the returned plist are charset name symbols for which some fonts are specified and values are NULL.
o If charset is a charset name symbol, the plist is a FONT-GROUP for the charset.
o If charset is Mnil, the plist is a fallback FONT-GROUP.
RETURN VALUE
It returns a plist describing the contents of a fontset. The plist should be freed by m17n_object_unref().
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.
Version 1.6.2 12 Jan 2011 mfontset_lookup(3m17n)
08-11-2011
