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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Directory Tree/Recursion Issue . . . Post 302921590 by LinQ on Saturday 18th of October 2014 04:20:58 PM
Old 10-18-2014
Directory Tree/Recursion Issue . . .

Hope the title is close enough; didn't quite know how to put this...

OK.

We have a hypothetical script, script.a, with one simplistic line:
Code:
bash ./nextDir/script.b

Now script.b has a bit more going for it; and does file moves, copies, and renames, calling all the targets with respect to itself.

Manually running script.b from a command prompt at its dir is no problem; all moves, copies, and renames are executed on the targets without issue.

OTOH, running script.b from script.a changes the effective recursion level for script.b to that of script.a; and nothing executes properly...

So, I guess this is a rock-bottom basic question, but the answer eludes me: How do we create a script.a which calls script.b without changing its recursion level?


Thanks again Smilie
 

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This perl script is used by LiVES to compile an RFX (rendered effect) plugin for LiVES. It is generally called from build-lives-rfx-plugin- multi for a script which has a language code representing LiVES-perl. The script_name must be the full (absolute) path to the plugin script, and plugin_dir can be used to specify the output directory where the compiled plugin should be generated. If plugin_dir is not defined then /tmp is assumed. The second variant with -get is used to print out a script section from a plugin script to stdout. It is generally only used internally by LiVES. Return values The script returns the following values 0 - success 1 - the value of a trigger was greater than the number of parameters 2 - a value could not be read from the script file 3 - the language code of the plugin script was not equivalent to LiVES-perl 4 - the API version level of the plugin script was invalid 5 - the <define> section was missing from the plugin script SEE ALSO
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