How to check that passed parameters all have the same extension?


 
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# 1  
Old 04-07-2010
MySQL 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."


Last edited by cs03dmj; 04-07-2010 at 09:59 AM..
# 2  
Old 04-07-2010
Code:
#!bin/ksh or bash or ...
[ "$#" -lt 1 ] && echo "need args" >&2 && exit 1

IFS="."
token=($1)
cnt=${#token[*]}
((last=cnt-1))
shift
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
        mytoken=($1)
        mycnt=${#mytoken[*]}
        ((mylast=mycnt-1))
        ((cnt==1 && mycnt != 1)) && echo "All extensions are NOT alike." && exit 2
        [ "${mytoken[$mylast]}" != "${token[$last]}" ] && echo "All extensions are NOT alike." && exit 3
        shift
done

echo "All extensions ARE alike"

# 3  
Old 04-07-2010
you can try for extension check
Code:
#!/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..Smilie .. for better result.
# 4  
Old 04-07-2010
Thanks both.

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

# 5  
Old 04-07-2010
Are you tested example
1.txt 1.1.txt 2.txt
All those have same extension.
# 6  
Old 04-07-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kshji
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: Smilie

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

# 7  
Old 04-07-2010
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
Code:
#!/bin/sh

set_e() {
    e=${1#*.}
    [ "$e" = "$1" ] && e=''
}

set_e "$1"
ext=$e

for f; do
    set_e "$f"
    [ "$ext" = "$e" ] || exit 1
done
exit 0

You can then use the exit status to echo or proceed accordingly (or you can just insert the echo statements into the code, if you like).

Regards,
Alister

Last edited by alister; 04-07-2010 at 03:36 PM.. Reason: removed shift
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