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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying files to directories based on first 6 character Post 302946816 by Don Cragun on Friday 12th of June 2015 03:27:14 PM
Old 06-12-2015
Why didn't you paste it all? If we can't see what you're doing, we're wasting our time trying to improve it.

The code snippet you have shown us seems to be doing something very different from what you said you want this script to do.

Show us what you have done!
 

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kross

KROSS(1)							 KDE User's Manual							  KROSS(1)

NAME

       kross - KDE application to run kross scripts.

SYNOPSIS

       kross [--help] [Generic-options] [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       kross executes kross scripts written in KDE Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java and Falcon.

GENERIC OPTIONS

       --author
	      Show author information.

       --help Show help about options.

       --help-all
	      Show all options.

       --help-kde
	      Show KDE specific options.

       --help-qt
	      Show Qt specific options.

       --license
	      Show license information.

       -v--version
	      Show version information

APPLICATION OPTIONS

       file...
	      The files with the scripts to run.

USAGE

	kross  file runs the script in file after loading the interpreter plugin for the script language (detected by filename suffix).

       To interpret other languages than KDE Javascript, kdebindings must be installed.

SEE ALSO

       kdeoptions(7), qtoptions(7), python(1), ruby(1), kjs(1), java(1), falcon(1)

       Look at http://kross.dipe.org/solution.html for more information and tutorials.

BUGS

       There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org: http://bugs.kde.org to report them.

AUTHOR

       Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org>.

								    2008-10-22								  KROSS(1)
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