If you recall, not too long ago, i was asking about the GNU Autotools. The feedback on that was almost unisense, and me figured that it turned my (back then) +98% SHELL project into a +73% GROFF project...
Felt a bit overhelmed, specialy since i didnt actualy use or need the true purpose of those tools....
But it sure helped me lots understanding the whole installation process (a little bit) better.
Eventually i thought i could write my own 'installer' (aka configure) script -> YASSI -> Yet Another Simple Script Installer.
The help screen will look quite familiar...
For basic installations, one runs ./configure [--prefix=/usr] which generates:
make-install
make-uninstall
make-distclean
A basic installation of a small script based project could look as simple as (in the configure.cfg):
For more complex projects, one could use doRef=true to get the dirs used by the project saved to: <PREFIX>/<SYSCONFDIR>/<APP>.conf (defaults: [/usr{/local}]/etc or $HOME/.local/etc)
So within your project, you just need to figure that single file, to get all your default/used directories.
However, for more tweaking i've added some arrays that are parsed at different times.
PREPARE is run during ./configure, so its actions are applied to ./configure --tarball --prefix=/usr
PRIOR is run before the actual install, during ./make-install
POST is run after the actual install, during ./make-install
CLEAN is run during ./make-distclean, and should be used to remove files from PREPARE
REMOVE is run during ./make-uninstall, and should be used to remove files from PRIOR
IGNORE is run during ./configure --tarball, and should be used to share the prepared project with family or friends.
For obvious reasons, it supplies 2 samples, a default one and a full one (with my own preferences, to illustrate what is possible).
I wonder if you would have any further thoughts or ideas?
Otherwise, i hope this helps - thought this is not a release yet.
Hi Gurus,
I need a simple logic idea what can be done in the below shell script.
I written a script to do a automated maintenance work on every month of 15th and I have scheduled it through the crontab. I need to send an alert email to the user before 24 hrs of that maintenance script run.... (5 Replies)
i=1
out=""
j=`expr 2 * $1`
while
do
out="$out"#""
echo $out
((i=i+1))
done
while
do
print ${out%?}
((i=i+1))
done
This script is throwing an error:
gurnish:/home/fnb/gurnish/saurabh/scripts> while1 3
expr: 0402-050 Syntax error.
# (6 Replies)
Hi, I'm trying to write a script to search through my computer and
find all .jpg files and put them all in a directory. So far I have
this:
for i in `find /home -name '*.jpg' ` ; do mv $i home/allen/Pictures/PicturesFound ; done
When I run it, I get this error (this is only part of it, it... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm new to the world of Perl so may have gone about this in the wrong way (my background is mainly Java and Bash).
I have a Perl script (gallery.pl) which takes in various arguments (the only mandatory arguments is a directory full of images) and creates an HTML, standards compliant... (1 Reply)
Hello, beginner bash scripter here.. I was able to write a script and it works just fine. I'm just wondering if someone could chime in or any suggestions to make it cleaner or tighter so to speak. I have a disk to disk backup solution which uses 250GB disks. When one gets full I just po in a new... (7 Replies)
I'm currently developing a script to clean out certain directories based on age and name. Part of the assignment is to ensure that the cleaning of a directory is done under the user id of the owner (script is running as root). I have a few ideas on how to do this, but I'd like to hear your... (3 Replies)
I'm currently running a script that checks to see if a laptop is on the network, and if it is it backs up, if not it retries it later.
Anyway, our backup scheduling has changed. I need to check if today's date is the Thursday after the first Wednesday of every month. This is made slightly more... (5 Replies)
a script with prompts user and returns the value of there home directory and full name
#!/bin/bash
echo "please enter your login ID"
read login_id
while $login_id -ne `grep $login_id /etc/passwd | cut -f1 -d:`
is they anything wrong with it (5 Replies)
I have a matrix , how do I compare all the elements of a column , lets say I want to check if the columns contain the alphabets "S","H","A","R","A","T".
and not "X"s.
Lets say matrix looks something like this ..
SSSXSH
HHXXHA
AAXXAT
RRRXRS
AAXTAR
TTTTTA
I can hard code it where... (4 Replies)
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