Re: Syntax Question...

[Dennis Williamson]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> How do I determine the location of my script?
>> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/028
>>
>
> ???  I don't understand the need for complexity -- what I have works.  Its a
> few
> lines@ most -- I use the same in perl.  has worked for years.  But then I'm
> not running
> the scripts on remote systems via 'ssh'....
>
> I don't need to fix problems that aren't broken.

The "don't do that" messages in Greg's FAQs are just as important, if
not more so, as the "how to" stuff.

>>>
>>> prefix="snapdir/@GMT-"
>>> snap_today="$(date +%Y.%m.%d-)"
>>> snap_prefix="$mp/$prefix$snap_today*"
>>> today_snaps="$('ls' -1 ${snap_prefix} 2>/dev/null |tr "\n" " " )"
>>>
>>
>> This one is so bad, I saved it for last. Ack! Pfffft! Wait, what? Why?
>> What the? Huh?
>>
>
> you left of the lines before it that explain it...(fixed that for ya!)
> for a 'mp'=home, it looks for
>
>     /home/snapdir-@GMT-YYYY-MM-DD-*
> w/today's date -- the "*" would match any time.
>
> 'ls' -1 lists them 1/line, if it isn't found, the errors goto devnull, and
> any filenames
> are put on the same line and space separated and stored in 'today snaps'...
>
>
> So...I had 'echo' there, before, but for some reason,, it wasn't expanding,
> so I went
> with 'ls/tr'....tried and true!
>
> What would you do to search for files w/wild cards and return the output
> in a list?
>

I don't see any globbing unless it comes in via an argument to that
script. Why do you need it in a list? The only thing you're doing with
that variable is checking to see if the files exist. Please see
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/004

Why are there single quotes around ls?

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