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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash compare a list of file Post 302953510 by Don Cragun on Friday 28th of August 2015 04:55:57 PM
Old 08-28-2015
I wouldn't test for filenames containing spaces, tabs, or newlines, I'd just write code that works even if they are present. (And if I found users creating filenames containing whitespace characters, I'd ban them from using my system! Smilie Unfortunately, there need to be exceptions for some things like .mp3 and .mp4 files with spaces in the titles of songs and movies, but most users creating filenames containing spaces are just trying to create problems for inexperienced programmers.)

Stop trying to create lists and then trying to process the list. Process filenames one at a time. And, learn to use shell built-ins instead of pipelines of awk, grep, and ls commands. Try something more like:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Assume that we are starting in a directory with a filename suffix ".git".
# Get related non-".git" directory name.
FOLDER_NAME=${PWD##*/}		# Extract last component of current working directory
FOLDER_NAME=${FOLDER_NAME%.git}	# Throw away ".git".

printf 'DEBUG: VAR FOLDER_NAME=%s\n' "$FOLDER_NAME"

# Process the files in the non-".git" directory...
for FILE in ../"$FOLDER_NAME"/*
do	# Skip files that are not regular files...
	[ ! -f "$FILE" ] && continue

	# Do whatever you want with the regular file from ../"$FOLDER_NAME"...
	printf 'DEBUG: VAR FILE="%s"\n' "$FILE"
	printf 'another file inside the FOR loop\n:'	# Should ":" be before newline?
done

If you don't understand how something in the above works, try running it with:
Code:
bash -xv script_name

and watch how bash processes each command in the script. If you still don't understand, ask questions... We're here to help you learn.
 

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git-sh loads a set of standard aliases in addition to all core git commands. The builtin aliases are overridden by aliases defined in the user or system gitconfig files. a git add b git branch c git checkout d git diff f git fetch --prune k git cherry-pick l git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit n git commit --verbose --amend r git remote s git commit --dry-run --short t git diff --cached The Staging Area a git add aa git add --update (mnemonic: "add all") stage git add ap git add --patch p git diff --cached (mnemonic: "patch") ps git diff --cached --stat (mnemonic: "patch stat") unstage git reset HEAD Commits and Commit History ci git commit --verbose ca git commit --verbose --all amend git commit --verbose --amend n git commit --verbose --amend k git cherry-pick re git rebase --interactive pop git reset --soft HEAD^ peek git log -p --max-count=1 Fetching and Pulling f git fetch pm git pull (mnemonic: "pull merge") pr git pull --rebase (mnemonic: "pull rebase") Miscellaneous Commands d git diff ds git diff --stat (mnemonic: "diff stat") hard git reset --hard soft git reset --soft scrap git checkout HEAD CUSTOM ALIASES
Anything defined in the [alias] section of the repository, user, or system git config files are also available as top-level shell commands. Assuming a ~/.gitconfig that looked like this: [alias] ci = commit --verbose ca = commit -a d = diff s = status thanks = !git-thanks ... you might then have the following shell session: master!something> echo "stuff" >somefile master!something*> s M somefile master!something*> d diff --git a/somefile b/somefile -- a/somefile ++ b/somefile @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + stuff master!something*> ca -m "add stuff" master!something> thanks HEAD PROMPT The default prompt shows the current branch, a bang (!), and then the relative path to the current working directory from the root of the work tree. If the work tree includes modified files that have not yet been staged, a dirty status indicator (*) is also displayed. The git-sh prompt includes ANSI colors when the git color.ui option is set and enabled. To enable git-sh's prompt colors explicitly, set the color.sh config value to auto: $ git config --global color.sh auto Customize prompt colors by setting the color.sh.branch, color.sh.workdir, and color.sh.dirty git config values: $ git config --global color.sh.branch 'yellow reverse' $ git config --global color.sh.workdir 'blue bold' $ git config --global color.sh.dirty 'red' See colors in git for information. COMPLETION
Bash completion support is automatically enabled for all git built-in commands and also for aliases defined in the user ~/.gitconfig file. The auto-completion logic is smart enough to know an alias d that expands to git-diff should use the same completion configuration as the git-diff command. The completion code is a slightly modified version of the git bash completion script shipped with the core git distribution. The script is built into thegit-sh executable at compile time and need not be obtained or installed separately. CUSTOMIZING
Most git-sh behavior can be configured by editing the user or system gitconfig files (~/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig) either by hand or using git-config(1). The [alias] section is used to create basic command aliases. The /etc/gitshrc and ~/.gitshrc files are sourced (in that order) immediately before the shell becomes interactive. The ~/.bashrc file is sourced before either /etc/gitshrc or ~/.gitshrc. Any bash customizations defined there and not explicitly overrid- den by git-sh are also available. ENVIRONMENT
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bash(1), git(1), git-config(1),http://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh Ryan Tomayko March 2010 GIT-SH(1)
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