Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:49:03PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: > > > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > > > > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > > > do > > > ec

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: >> I would like to write a bash script like the following one: >> >> for i in `some program that outputs a word list` >> do >> echo $i >> done >> >> where the word list can be ver

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/01/07 15:07, Wei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > do > echo $i > done > > where the word list can be very very long. I wonder what is the upper bound > limit of the length of word list

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:49:03PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: > > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > > do > > echo $i > > done > > > > where the word list can be

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Mike Bird
On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > do > echo $i > done > > where the word list can be very very long. I wonder what is the upper bound > limit of the length of wor

[OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Wei Chen
Hi, I would like to write a bash script like the following one: for i in `some program that outputs a word list` do echo $i done where the word list can be very very long. I wonder what is the upper bound limit of the length of word lists in "for" loop of a bash script, or does it only depend

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-09 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
> > Are we trying to optimize the thrown together? How about one (1) line > for both ??? > > echo $file | sed 's!^.*/!!;s!\..*$!!' > sed is powerful but I prefer the simplest way: basename $file .mp3

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > > On 2001.11.08 23:44 Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > You can use 'basename' command to remove complete path. Are we trying to optimize the thrown together? How about one (1) line for both ??? echo $file | sed 's!^.*/!!;s!\..*$!!' -- Best Regards, mds mds

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-09 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
On 2001.11.08 23:44 Michael D. Schleif wrote: You can use 'basename' command to remove complete path.

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:44:15PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: | Stephen Gran wrote: [ specification ] | How about this? | | | #!/bin/sh | DIR=/home/mds | for dir in `find $DIR -type d | sort` | do | echo $dir | echo | for file in `find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f | so

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:24, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music > directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full > path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in > between directorie

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michael D. Schleif: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music > > directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full > > path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in >

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Stephen Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music > directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full > path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in > between directories. The best I can do so fa

OT: scripting question

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, What I'd like to end up with is a short script that will scan my music directories and output to a file. I'd like this to strip off the full path and any ending extension, and ideally leave a blany\k line in between directories. The best I can do so far is : ls -R /home/mp3 | (read fil