Recently i've been 'fighting' with the GNU Autotools (autoconf, automake) to distribute one of my script based projects.
Figured that these tools are very powerfull, and therefor can be very hard to learn/master.
This said, a new personal project was started, inspired by the GNU Autotools, but focus' only on copying files to predefined places.
For this reason, it only requires a single configuration file.
On first use, i recomend to use ./configure --sample-full for the comments in the view, where as advanced users will probably prefer ./configure --sample > configure.cfg
To simplify the the installation task, it copies directories recursivly, preserving permissions set (cp -ar).
TODO:
There is one thing i'll add as soon i 'fully' (as in 'enough') understand it.
The automization for placing the *po (and sub-related stuff) files.
BUGS:
This said, for basic instructions, please read the README.
If you have bugs or suggestions and have a github account, please raise an ISSUE or drop a line here otherwise.
:D my first question is how can envoke filename expansion from within a shell script.. forinstance if i execute the script and it asks for a specific directory that i would like to cd to, how can i get the script to use the same file name expension as the command line..
my second question is how... (3 Replies)
hello solaris friends,
I've tried installing Sun Solaris 10.0, but everytime it seems to bypass the network config. screen that looks similar to this...here's the url:
http://www.hup.hu/old/images/hup/Solaris/Sol10beta7/9.png
I'm able to install it all the way through but I get no... (2 Replies)
hi everyone...
i'm new to this shell programming and i want help with the following question...
i hope someone can help me ...pls plsssssssssss
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the question
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A number of... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm wondering if you may know of a simple file based UNIX utility that can be used to store and retrieve values on a flat file, let's say i have a file called "kru", i'd like to be able to specify a request like:
while(....)
if ; then
kru.fld2 = $rec_cnt
kru.fld3 =... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have to write a program to compute the checksums of files
./script.sh
I wrote the program using bash and it took me forever since I am a beginner but it works very well.
I'm getting so close to the deadline and I realised today that actually I have to use normal Bourne shell... (3 Replies)
Dear Members,
I have a table REQUESTS in Oracle which has an attribute REQUEST_ACTION. The entries in REQUEST_ACTION are like, ME, MD, ND, NE etc.
I would like to create a script which will will call other scripts based on the request action.
Can we directly read from the REQUEST_ACTION... (2 Replies)
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
... (16 Replies)
Very new to this.....
What I would like to do:
Create a simple GUI/Web portal with 3 buttons and 1 text field
The three buttons need to take the input into the text field and use that as the variable to execute scripts located on a server
Problem:
How can i get the buttons on the... (3 Replies)
Cheers!
In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not?
To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)
Heyas
As someone said he'd like to see some more projects posts on the forum, so, here's one I hope is ready.
Not so much fun-fun, but practical ;)
I hope...
So, you have that small non-arch project you would like to install, but get the feeling that GNU Autoconf is a bit too 'massive' for... (2 Replies)
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