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Old 08-26-2012
Look for, backup and delete symlinks
Hi,

My first post here:
Was looking if someone can help enhancing my code.
I am limited to sh or ash shell (android / busybox)

I made a script to look for busybox symlinks, backup them and delete them

I have these questions about the below code:

- busybox tar do not has the options to append to an archive, any workaround for my script to avoid backing up separate files?

- I want to avoid grep to search for busybox string in the readlink output results. if [[ str1 == *busybox ]] option is not recognized in my case

- any other advises about that script are welcome

Thanks a lot

Code:
#!/system/xbin/busybox sh
# or android shell /bin/sh

bkdir="/sdcard/bb-uninstall" ; 
if [ -d "$bkdir" ] ; 
	then 
		busybox echo "Backup folder $bkdir already exists. Please remove it to proceed...">>$bkdir/__Error_Backup_Folder_Already_Exists__.txt ; 
		busybox echo "Backup folder \"$bkdir\" already exists. Please remove it to proceed..." ; 
		exit 1 ; 
	else 
		busybox mkdir $bkdir ; 
		if [ ! -d "$bkdir" ] ; 	 
			then 
				busybox echo "Backup folder \"$bkdir\" could not be created" ; 
				busybox echo "Check if sdcard is present, mounted, has free space or you have permissions!!" ; 
				exit 1 ; 
		fi ; 
fi ; 

bbdir="/system/xbin /system/bin" ; 
ndeletes=0 ; 
for bbpath in $bbdir ; 
	do 
		for f in $(busybox find $bbpath -type l) ; 
			do 
				gnr=$(busybox readlink $f) ; 
				if echo "$gnr" |busybox grep -q busybox ; 
					then 
						busybox echo -e "$f \t is linked to \t $gnr ---> backup up in sdcard then deleted">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
						bkfile=`busybox echo "$f" | busybox tr '/' '.'` ; 
						bkfile=bak$bkfile ; 
						busybox tar zcf $bkdir/$bkfile.tar.gz -C / ${f:1} ; 
						if [ ! -f "$bkdir/$bkfile.tar.gz" ] ; 
							then 
								busybox echo "Error while creating backup file \"$bkdir/$bkfile.tar.gz\"" ; 
								busybox echo "File \"$f\" was not deleted" ; 
								busybox echo "Check free space on \"$bkdir\" or if you have needed permissions" ; 
								busybox echo "Uninstall will stop. Launch it again after fixing write issue to \"$bkdir\"" ; 
								exit 1 ; 
						fi ; 
						busybox echo "$f linking to $gnr backed-up. Now deleting" ; 
						busybox rm $f ; 
						ndeletes=`busybox expr $ndeletes + 1` ; 
					else busybox echo "$f is not linked to busybox, but to $gnr ---> file not deleted">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
				fi ; 
		done 
done 


echo >>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "=========================================">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "  Busybox Uninstaller v1.0 Completed !!  ">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "=========================================">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "               - Details -               ">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "Number of deleted files: $ndeletes">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "Busybox cleaned folders: \"$bbdir\"">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "Backup folder: \"$bkdir\"">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo "Log file: \"$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log\"">>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 
echo >>$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log ; 

echo ; 
echo "=========================================" ; 
echo "  Busybox Uninstaller v1.0 Completed !!  " ; 
echo "=========================================" ; 
echo "               - Details -               " ; 
echo "Number of deleted files: $ndeletes" ; 
echo "Busybox cleaned folders: \"$bbdir\"" ; 
echo "Backup folder: \"$bkdir\"" ; 
echo "Log file: \"$bkdir/bb-uninstall.log\"" ; 
echo ;

# 2  
Old 08-26-2012
You could use a case statement to match the "busybox" string:

Code:
case "$gnr" in
    *busybox*)
                ....
    ;;
    *)
               ....
    ;;
esac

---------- Post updated at 09:48 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:35 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil3759
- busybox tar do not has the options to append to an archive, any workaround for my script to avoid backing up separate files?
Think you are going to have to resort to rebuilding the tar with your new/replaced files:
  • Extract existing tar archive into a temp area
  • copy additional/replacement files into same structure
  • retar the whole thing
  • delete the temp area.

---------- Post updated at 09:54 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:48 AM ----------

Don't think ${f:1} is supported under ash you man need to use ${f#?} instead.
# 3  
Old 08-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
You could use a case statement to match the "busybox" string:

Code:
case "$gnr" in
    *busybox*)
                ....
    ;;
    *)
               ....
    ;;
esac

Thank you a lot for the support

Using case in: again, no advantage over grep, as both are external commands to the shell. Using Grep permits me to continue with the if/else structure
Any other way to replace this part of code:
Code:
if [[ $gnr == *busybox ]]

By the way, I tried also this one:
Code:
if [ $gnr = "$bbpath/busybox" ];

But it ends detecting all symlinks as related to busybox, even those that are not related to it. Any reason you see for that?

Should I try
Code:
if [[ $gnr = "$bbpath/busybox" ]];

?

Quote:
Think you are going to have to resort to rebuilding the tar with your new/replaced files:
  • Extract existing tar archive into a temp area
  • copy additional/replacement files into same structure
  • retar the whole thing
  • delete the temp area.

---------- Post updated at 09:54 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:48 AM ----------

Don't think ${f:1} is supported under ash you man need to use ${f#?} instead.
Did not think at it that way, good idea :-)

Edit:
${f:1} worked fine under /bin/sh (android) and also with the busybox ash I use actually. But thank you for the other alternative
Last edited by Phil3759; 08-27-2012 at 05:59 PM..
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