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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to check the files existence inside a directory. Post 303006244 by rovf on Monday 30th of October 2017 08:40:48 AM
Old 10-30-2017
It is of course a matter of taste. I personally don't like your solution so much, because it globs for the files twice (in the while- and in the for-loop), which makes maintenance more difficult (think about the case, when the requirement changes and you have to look for files matching, say, *.log, instead of * ... you have to remember to make the change in two places).

Of course if we start thinking in this way, there is much more which could be improved in this script .....
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cscope-indexer

cscope-indexer(1)					      General Commands Manual						 cscope-indexer(1)

NAME

       cscope-indexer - Script to index files for cscope

SYNOPSIS

       cscope-indexer [-v] [-f database_file] [-i list_file] [-l] [-r]

DESCRIPTION

       This  script  generates	a list of files to index (cscope.out), which is then (optionally) used to generate a cscope database.  You can use
       this script to just build a list of files, or it can be used to build a list and database.  This script is not used to just build  a  data-
       base (skipping the list of files step), as this can be simply done by just calling "cscope -b".

       Normally,  cscope will do its own indexing, but this script can be used to force indexing.  This is useful if you need to recurse into sub-
       directories, or have many files to index (you can run this script from a cron job, during the night).  It is especially	useful	for  large
       projects,  which  can  contstantly  have source files added and deleted; by using this script, the changing sources files are automatically
       handled.

       Currently, any paths containing "/CVS/" or "/RCS/" are stripped out (ignored).

OPTIONS

       -f database_file
	      Specifies the cscope database file (default: cscope.out).

       -i list_file
	      Specifies the name of the file into which the list of files to index is placed (default: cscope.files).

       -l     Suppress the generation/updating of the cscope database file.  Only a list of files is generated.

       -r     Recurse into subdirectories to locate files to index.  Without this option, only the current directory is searched.

       -v     Be verbose.  Output simple progress messages.

SEE ALSO

       cscope(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Robert Lemmen <robertle@semistable.com> (but may  be  used  by  others,	of
       course)

Script to index files for cscope				 30. December 2002						 cscope-indexer(1)
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