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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting directories are not getting removed Post 89774 by slavam on Tuesday 15th of November 2005 05:59:33 PM
Old 11-15-2005
directories are not getting removed
hello Everyone.
I'm having the following problem:
I have number of installation in the directory. each installation consists of executable file and directory. when I do the new installation I move old one to File_name-Time_stamp. this is done for executable and for directory. Everything is done by shell script and works just fine. Now I want to get rid of old installations and keep only new one and last back up (which is created just before ) this script is working fine except one thing - it does not remove the directory. if I do the same manually - it works just fine, however inside the script it doesn't. Does anyone can help me and explain to me what's wrong in my script?

Thanks a lot in advance!
below is my script:

#!/bin/ksh
#cleanup.ksh
typeset SYS_NAME=$1
typeset TimeStamp="not defined"
typeset toRemove="not defined"
umask 002


function TimeStamp {
TimeStamp=`(set \`/bin/date +%d-%b-%y@%H:%M:%S\`; /bin/echo $1)`
print "TimeStamp: $TimeStamp"
return 0;
}

function cleanup {
for Item in `/bin/ls $SYS_NAME*`
do
toRemove=$Item
print "processing: $toRemove"
if [[ $toRemove != $SYS_NAMEc && $toRemove != $SYS_NAMEc-$TimeStamp && $toRemove != $SYS_NAMEc.1 && $toRemove != $SYS_NAMEc.1-$TimeStamp && $toRemove != "cleanup.ksh" ]]
then
rm -Rf $toRemove
print "$toRemove removed"
else
print "I'm not moving: $toRemove"
fi
done
return 0;
}
function backup {
if [[ -s ${SYS_NAME}c ]]
then
/bin/mv ${SYS_NAME}c ${SYS_NAME}c-${TimeStamp}
print "${SYS_NAME}c-${TimeStamp} has been created"
else
print "Could not create a backup for file ${SYS_NAME}c"
exit
fi
if [[ -d ${SYS_NAME}c.1 ]]
then
/bin/mv ${SYS_NAME}c.1 ${SYS_NAME}c.1-${TimeStamp}
print "${SYS_NAME}c.1-${TimeStamp} directory has been created"
else
print "Could not create a backup for directory ${SYS_NAME}c.1"
exit

fi
return 0;
}
TimeStamp
backup
cleanup
 

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uuid-config

UUID-CONFIG(1)						   Universally Unique Identifier					    UUID-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       uuid-config - OSSP uuid API build utility

VERSION

       OSSP uuid 1.6.2 (04-Jul-2008)

SYNOPSIS

       uuid-config [--help] [--version] [--all] [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--bindir] [--libdir] [--includedir] [--mandir] [--datadir] [--acdir]
       [--cflags] [--ldflags] [--libs]

DESCRIPTION

       The uuid-config program is a little helper utility for easy configuring and building applications based on the uuid(3) library.	It can be
       used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the uuid(3) library.

OPTIONS

       uuid-config accepts the following options:

       --help
	 Prints the short usage information.

       --version
	 Prints the version number and date of the installed uuid(3) library.

       --all
	 Forces the output of all flags, that is, including extra flags which are not OSSP uuid specific.

       --prefix
	 Prints the installation prefix of architecture independent files

       --exec-prefix
	 Prints the installation prefix of architecture dependent files.

       --bindir
	 Prints the installation directory of binaries.

       --libdir
	 Prints the installation directory of libraries.

       --includedir
	 Prints the installation directory of include headers.

       --mandir
	 Prints the installation directory of manual pages.

       --datadir
	 Prints the installation directory of shared data.

       --acdir
	 Prints the installation directory of autoconf data.

       --cflags
	 Prints the C compiler flags which are needed to compile the uuid(3)-based application. The output is usually added to the CFLAGS
	 uuidiable of the applications Makefile.

       --ldflags
	 Prints the linker flags (-L) which are needed to link the application with the uuid(3) library. The output is usually added to the
	 LDFLAGS uuidiable of the applications Makefile.

       --libs
	 Prints the library flags (-l) which are needed to link the application with the C uuid(3) library. The output is usually added to the
	 LIBS uuidiable of the applications Makefile.

EXAMPLE

	CC	= cc
	CFLAGS	= -O `uuid-config --cflags`
	LDFLAGS = `uuid-config --ldflags`
	LIBS	= -lm `uuid-config --libs`

	all: foo
	foo: foo.o
	    $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o foo foo.o $(LIBS)
	foo.o: foo.c
	    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c foo.c

SEE ALSO

       uuid(3), uuid(1), OSSP::uuid(3).

04-Jul-2008							  OSSP uuid 1.6.2						    UUID-CONFIG(1)
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