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i THINK i might have gotten it...

Code:

#!/bin/tcsh -f

## Properties
set defGrp = staff
set td = "~/Library/Application\ Support/RMS"

if ( -d {td} ) then
	echo ""
	else
	cp -R "/Users/admin/Public/RMS" ~/Library/Application\ Support/
	/usr/sbin/chown -R ${1}:${defGrp} ~/Library/Application\ Support/RMS
endif

Maybe add -p o cp to preserve timestamps, permissions.

If all are on the same FS, you can hard link everything not a directory together (make a clone tree). There might be a cp option for that, '-l', or look into cpio -p.

Looks pretty similar to my script, why did you choose tcsh?

@DGPickett - every one of my efforts at linking have failed. i don't know much about it, but i can say with certainty that i have had NO luck with getting the linking to work. not even the glimmer of hope :-(

@glev2005 - i borrowed HEAVILY from your script (deep thanks for your help). i used tcsh because the basis script i used, written by mike bombich, was written in tcsh. since i have virtually ZERO knowledge of scripting, i had to pretty much copy and paste this thing until it worked. that being said... how does it look to you?

It looks good, but I am not familiar with tcsh.. Does it work? It basically does what mine does, but it added the chmod part that I recommended using chown to change ownership to the group of the current user I believe. It appears to do exactly what I was thinking.. There were a few parts I wasnt sure about ths syntax, but I assume it is fine, just tcsh conventions that I am not familiar with.

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Do you know Mike Bombich? Does his company sell the RMS software you are using?

it works, except for the "check to see if the directory is already there" part. i haven't tested that part yet. that's my afternoon "fun" today.

can you recommend a good bash book? i need to get my weight up in this stuff.

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i don't know mike. just a few e-mails here and there. he's an apple guy - no connection whatsoever to the RMS software.

Do you not need a $ here?

Code:

if ( -d {td} ) then

should be if ( -d ${td} ) then

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I dont know, just asking.. Like I said, I dont use tcsh, it is fairly old I believe.