How to check that passed parameters all have the same extension?
Code:
$ ls
monkey.txt
banana.csv
tree.txt
$ myscript monkey.txt tree.txt
All extensions ARE alike.
$ myscript *txt
All extensions ARE alike.
$ myscript monkey.txt banana.csv
All extensions are NOT alike.
$ myscript *
All extensions are NOT alike.
My brain has given up; what's the simplest shell script needed to produce the above output, i.e. iterate through positional parameters, comparing their file extensions for similarity?
I know it's wrong, but here's my thought process:
Code:
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
for (( i=1; i<$#; i++ )); do
if [ "$i##*.}" != "$i+1##*.}" ]; then
echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
exit 1
fi
done
fi
echo "All extensions ARE alike."
Thanks in advance...
---------- Post updated at 01:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:00 PM ----------
Nearly there! Now I just need it to work when files are without an extension, too (currently this would say they are NOT alike):
Code:
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
for (( i=1; i<$#; i++ )); do
j=`expr $i + 1`
if eval [ '${'${i}'##*.}' != '${'${j}'##*.}' ]; then
echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
exit 1
fi
done
fi
echo "All extensions ARE alike."
---------- Post updated at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:21 PM ----------
Huzzah! Messy, but functional:
Code:
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
for (( i=1; i<$#; i++ )); do
if [ "$(eval echo '${'$i'}' | sed 's/^[^\.]*//')" != "$(eval echo '${'$((i+1))'}' | sed 's/^[^\.]*//')" ]; then
echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
exit 1
fi
done
fi
echo "All extensions ARE alike."
#!/bin/sh
for i in `echo $*`
do
echo $i |awk -F. '{print $2}'|sort >>text
done
cat text|uniq -c |awk 'END{ {if(NR > 1)print "diff"
else print "same"}}'
rm -f text
if u want to check for the file name replace $2 with $1.
This script can me made shorter if we use array and count the var also.. .. for better result.
Posix - your suggestion prompted the following which is much easier to follow than my previous attempt(s) - thanks!
Code:
if [ `for file in $@; do
echo ${file} | sed 's/^[^\.]*//'
done | uniq -c | wc -l` -gt 1 ]; then
echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
exit 1
else
echo "All extensions ARE alike."
fi
Are you tested example
1.txt 1.1.txt 2.txt
All those have same extension.
Good point, kshji, but we use multiple "extensions" and hence require the filename to be stripped at the first "."
For your example, a slight alteration would suffice:
Code:
if [ `for file in $@; do
echo ${file##*.}
done | uniq -c | wc -l` -gt 1 ]; then
echo "All extensions are NOT alike."
exit 1
else
echo "All extensions ARE alike."
fi
The following is a sh solution that should be portable to most reasonably posix-compliant shells, and which should use nothing but sh built-ins to do its job.
With 0 or 1 argument, the result is always a match. With two or more, all extensions must match. The extension for "file.1.2" is ".1.2" and not ".2". All filenames with absent extensions match each other (which is the same semantic as that used by the echo|sed|uniq|wc pipeline in your earlier solution).
e=extension of current filename
set_e=function to set e
ext=extension which all filenames must match
f=current filename
#!/bin/bash
function check_num_args()
{
if ; then
echo "Please provide a file name"
else
treat_as_file $*
fi
}
function treat_as_file()
{
numFiles=$#
for((i=1;i<=$numFiles;i++));do
echo $i
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