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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Another script question. Post 425 by Astudent on Sunday 3rd of December 2000 03:48:01 PM
Old 12-03-2000
Hi,
First off I usually script in the bash shell.
Ok, in my script I am checking to see if the filename has a .txt extension.
So I was trying:
Code:
if [ ! -e "*txt" ]
then
    echo "Must contain a valid .txt extension"
fi

and
Code:
if [ "-f" -eq *[txt] ]
then
    echo "Must contain a valid .txt extension"
fi

But no go the first example sort of works but it always echo out the statement.

added code tags for readability --oombera
Last edited by oombera; 02-19-2004 at 02:58 AM..
 

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xsil2graphics

XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)

NAME

       xsil2graphics - generate scripts to load xsil output data files

SYNOPSIS

       xsil2graphics [options] <xsil_file>

DESCRIPTION

       Utility program bundled with xmds, used to generate scripts that load simulation output data into either matlab (http://www.mathworks.com)
       or scilab (http://www.scilab.org), which are then used to manipulate the results further if necessary and then to present the results
       graphically.

       Matlab

       To generate a matlab m-file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:

       bash$ xsil2graphics data_file.xsil

       or

       bash$ xsil2graphics --matlab data_file.xsil

       Then at the matlab command prompt:

       >> data_file

       Scilab

       To generate a scilab script file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:

       bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab data_file.xsil

       Then at the scilab command prompt:

       --> exec('data_file.sci')

OPTIONS

       -m, --matlab generate matlab m-file script to load data from the xsil data file (the default option)

       -s, -scilab generate scilab script file to load data from the xsil data file

       -o, --outfile <out_file> specify an alternative output script filename to the default which is the input xsil filename with the .xsil
       extension changed to either .m for the matlab m-file or .sci for the scilab script file

EXAMPLES

       bash$ xsil2graphics nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse.m to load the data into matlab

       bash$ xsil2graphics -m nlse.xsil

       Also generates the output nlse.m but explicitly sets matlab to be the output format

       bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse.sci to load the data into scilab

       bash$ xsil2graphics --outfile nlse_new.m nlse.xsil

       Generates the output nlse_new.m to load the data into matlab

AUTHORS

       Originally written by Greg Collecutt

       Maintained by Paul Cochrane with code contributed by Joe Hope

BUGS

       No known bugs.

SEE ALSO

       xmds(1), loadxsil(1)

       http://www.xmds.org

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2000-2004

       Code contributed by Greg Collecutt, Joseph Hope and Paul Cochrane

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

perl v5.8.2							    2004-06-21							  XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)
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