05-25-2005
Automatically Rename Last Generated File
I'm trying to rename the last generated file in a given directory using a makefile.
If I type 'make build' the 'build' target produces a file (ie: text_001.txt). It automatically generates them sequentially, so I don't have control over the name. I can't say that it will always be text_001.txt. Otherwise it would be easy:
mv text_001.txt build.txt
I would like to take the last generated .txt file and rename it ... something like: build.txt. Since I'm setting this up for other users however, I want to script this behavior. I know how to get the latest file by doing an ls -t *.txt, but I don't know how to (a) automatically find the latest file and (b) then rename that file.
I could do this using a perl script, but I would think it can be done much faster. Something like:
find . -name *.txt exec mv {} ...
Can anyone help?
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gtkdoc-mktmpl
gtkdoc-mktmpl(1) General Commands Manual gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)
NAME
gtkdoc-mktmpl -- GTK DocBook documentation generator.
SYNOPSIS
gtkdoc-mktmpl [ See below ]
DESCRIPTION
gtkdoc-mktmpl This creates or updates the template files which contain the manually-edited documentation. (A template is a simple text form
which is filled in with the description of a function, macro, enum, or struct. For functions and macros it also contains fields for
describing the parameters.)
This script reads in the existing templates, found in tmpl/*.sgml, moves these files to tmpl/*.sgml.bak, and then recreates the .sgml files
according to the structure given in the file MODULE-sections.txt.
Any new templates added, or new function parameters, are marked with FIXME so you can do a grep to see which parts need updating.
Any templates which are no longer used (i.e. they are remove from MODULE-sections.txt) are placed in the file tmpl/MODULE-unused.txt. If
they are included again later they are automatically copied back into position. If you are certain that these templates will never be used
again you can delete them from MODULE-unused.txt.
Any parameters to functions which are no longer used are separated from the rest of the parameters with the line <!-- # Unused Parameters #
-->. It may be that the parameter name has just been changed, in which case you can copy the description to the parameter with the new
name. You can delete the unused parameter descriptions when no longer needed.
EXAMPLE
See /usr/share/doc/gtk-doc-tools/examples, for a makefile.am and a configure.in example file.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Marillat marillat@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)