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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Restoring a file to its original location Post 302774347 by tastybrownies on Friday 1st of March 2013 04:16:34 PM
Old 03-01-2013
Restoring a file to its original location
Hello everyone,

I am attempting to make a recycling bin type application in shell script (tcsh). I have the whole part of the application done where someone can recycle files from one location to the recycling bin (the lower half of the program), this is not a problem. However I wanted to make another option if the user typed in something like recycle -cleanup as argument 1 it would go into a loop to check each file currently in the recycling bin and ask the user what to do. If the user chooses d, it deletes it. If they choose s it skips it, and lastly if they choose r I want to restore it. This is where the problem lies.

I am very inexperienced with shell programming in general so I am not even sure if the way I'm doing the -cleanup thing is right. But, is there a way to know the original file location so I can just put the file back? First check that there is not a file with a duplicate name in the old directory, then if not move it back. As of now I have no clue how to do this and any help would greatly be appreciated!

Thank you! This is what I have so far:

Code:
#!/bin/tcsh -f

if ["$1" == "-cleanup" ] then

set FILES=/$HOME/.garbage/*
set userChoice = " "
foreach file ( $FILES )
  echo "Processing $file file..."
  # take action on each file. $f store current file name

  echo "$file delete/restore/skip? (d/r/s)"
  set userChoice = $<

  if userChoice == "d" then
    rm $file
    echo "$file deleted!"
  else if userChoice == "r" then
   #restore to previous spot
   echo "$file restored!"
  else if userChoice == "s" then
   # do nothing
  else
   echo "You entered an invalid choice"

  endif
 
end
else


set n = 1
set size = 0
mkdir -p ~/.garbage

while ($n <= $#argv)
 if ( -d $argv[$n] ) then
   echo "$argv[$n] is a directory and cannot be removed"
 else
    
      
     mv $argv[$n] ~/.garbage
     
     echo "The file moved to the garbage directory was: "$argv[$n] "\n"
     set size = `du ~/.garbage | cut -f1`
  
 endif 
@ n++
end

  echo "The garbage bin's size is:" $size " bytes."
endif

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gnome-cleanup

gnome-cleanup(1)						   User Commands						  gnome-cleanup(1)

NAME

       gnome-cleanup - cleans GNOME user preferences

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-cleanup

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-cleanup  erases  all  GNOME  user preferences, returning the user to the default look and feel. This can be used to undo an undesired
       preference setting, or to correct the desktop if the preferences become corrupt.  The GNOME preference files  are  automatically  recreated
       the next time the user logs into a GNOME session.

       gnome-cleanup  displays	all preference files that it will delete before erasing any files, and prompts the user to confirm that they would
       like to erase these files. Files are deleted only after receiving a positive confirmation from the user.

       gnome-cleanup cannot be run while logged into a GNOME session.  Users should run this program when logged into another session,	for  exam-
       ple, the Failsafe session. If the user tries to run this program while logged into GNOME, an error message is displayed.

OPTIONS

       None.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Deleting all GNOME user preferences

       example% gnome-cleanup

       After displaying a list of preference files that will be deleted, the following question is displayed:

       Do you wish to remove these files (Y/N)

       The files are deleted only if the user provides a positive response.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-cleanup  Executable for GNOME cleanup.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-panel		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       remove-gnome(1)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    11 Jan 2003 						  gnome-cleanup(1)
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