Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello.

The last days I extended an open-source C++ library by some faster functions. This library provides a lot of short test programs which guarantee that the library works exactly.

The compilation of each test works in a Makefile automatically.

What I need is a shell script which executes all the build programs one after another. Furthermore I would like to get prompt to press the return key between two program executions.

Since I have nearly no experience with unix shell programming I would be glad if anyone could tell me how to do this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Max

Code:

#!/bin/sh

make targetone
echo -n "Hit ENTER"
read

make targettwo
echo -n "hit ENTER"
read

...

Code:

$ perl -e 'print "Step 1\n"; print "Press ENTER to continue..."; $a=<STDIN>;
           print "Step 2\n"; print "Press ENTER to continue..."; $a=<STDIN>;'

Thanks.

But is there a possibility to read out all programs (all files without an anding) automatically? So that I do not have to write all targets in a makefile?

Something like:

foreach program in listOfProgramsInCurrentDir
run program

Do you know what I mean?

Thank you for your answers.

Cheers

Probably, but you never gave any information whatsoever on that; do you have a list, or are we supposed to trawl the current directory for executable files, or executables but not scripts(if there's a ./configure in there you probably don't want your test system to run it! ) or should we look for files with a certain extension, or are you expecting us to query the makefile itself somehow, etc, etc, etc. Your pseudocode was the first hint we had.

To just run a list of commands from a textfile:

Code:

while read COMMAND
do
        $COMMAND
        echo -n "Hit enter"
        read
done < textfile

Or to find all executable files:

Code:

find ./ -maxdepth 1 -execuable -not -name 'configure' |
while read COMMAND
        $COMMAND
        echo -n "Hit enter"
        read
done

The second one is what I searched for . Thank you. Sorry for my inaccurate problem description.

Best Regards

Max