[ale] Hey, deb-heads!

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at attbi.com
Tue Jul 2 10:35:02 EDT 2002


No, I figured out the problem.  It wasn't a misreading of the -1 but a
misreading of the "backticks!"

- Jeff


On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:57, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I think there is a misreading of the ls command. It is ls -1 (one) not
> l(ell). That will format the output to be a single column of file names.
> 
> Processing the indiviual fields in the j loop is what is needed. It will
> make a symlink from each real file to a common location for each name
> found in each iteration of the outer loop.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:06, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > Hmm. I've double indices before in bash. What's not running, the second
> > > for loop or the `ls -1`?
> > 
> > I think the issue is `ls -l` is going to give you more then just the 
> > file names, which is what I think you want in this case.
> > 
> > Also, the for loop will process each 'field' in the 'ls -l' separately.
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 23:39, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Jim -
> > >>
> > >>Looks like that for j in `ls -1` line isn't gonna fly - I assume you
> > >>want the shell to evaluate that command but it's not...
> > >>
> > >>- Jeff
> > >>
> > >>On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 22:57, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Use a loopback mount to mount them all someplace like /tmp/cd1,
> > >>>/tmp/cd2, etc.
> > >>>
> > >>>#!/bin/bash
> > >>>
> > >>>export ftp=<path to ftp>
> > >>>for i in 1 2 3
> > >>>do
> > >>>cd /tmp/cd$i
> > >>>for j in `ls -1`
> > >>>do
> > >>>ln -s /tmp/cd$i/$j $ftp/$j
> > >>>done
> > >>>done
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 22:43, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>I've downloaded the three Debian Potato CD ISOs to my file server and
> > >>>>I'm going to try to do an install using the contents of those ISOs as
> > >>>>the source via FTP.  
> > >>>>
> > >>>>My question is, how do I combine the contents of the CDs in my FTP
> > >>>>filespace so as to make the whole schmeer resemble the Debian mirrors on
> > >>>>the Internet?  I'm used to doing this in Red-Hat-land but the layout
> > >>>>here is quite different.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>- Jeff
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
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> > >>>
> > >>>
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> > 
> > I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> > to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
> President and CEO      \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
> 770-493-8244             \.___________________________./
> 
> GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
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