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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Execute script in series of folders Post 302898068 by alister on Friday 18th of April 2014 08:19:06 AM
Old 04-18-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by 3therk1ll
Code:
for f in "${folders[@]}"
do
cp $desktop_script $fold_path/$f
chmod +x $fold_path/$f/$desktop_script
exec $fold_path/$f/$desktop_script
done

This part of the code seems to be working ok ...
That for-loop will never loop. The exec will replace the shell with its command argument before the first iteration completes.

Do you actually need a copy of the script in each target directory? Why not simply cd in a subshell?
Code:
for f in "${folders[@]}"
do
    (cd "$fold_path/$f"; "$desktop_script")
done

If it matters, the subshell isn't strictly required.

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 04-18-2014 at 09:25 AM..
 

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SERVICE(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						SERVICE(8)

NAME

     service -- control (start/stop/etc.) or list system services

SYNOPSIS

     service -e
     service -R
     service [-v] -l | -r
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DESCRIPTION

     The service command is an easy interface to the rc.d system.  Its primary purpose is to start and stop services provided by the rc.d scripts.
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     the scripts using various criteria.

     The options are as follows:

     -e  List services that are enabled.  The list of scripts to check is compiled using rcorder(8) the same way that it is done in rc(8), then
	 that list of scripts is checked for an "rcvar" assignment.  If present the script is checked to see if it is enabled.

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     -l  List all files in /etc/rc.d and the local startup directories.  As described in rc.conf(5) this is usually /usr/local/etc/rc.d.  All
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SEE ALSO

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AUTHORS

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