[SOLVED, for now] Help with a Bash Script, Please

fortyseven · 2013-01-15 11:39:12

I don't have much time to spend on this and since my bash scripting isn't what it could be, I thought I'd ask some of the CB friends for a helping hand.

I have a new job where every day i have to scan documents and sort them into various directories on a server. Currently I'm doing it one at a time, cutting and pasting. Could some of you bash geniuses help me with a way of doing it automatically?

The scanned document gets a file name based on the date, ie:

ABC_dc_20130115.pdf

DEF_dc_20130115.pdf

It then needs to go into a directory on a samba share, ie:

Customer/Calibrate/ABC/all/support/

Customer/Calibrate/DEF/all/support/

Hope I'm being clear enough. Please help.

PLEASE SEE POST 3.

Last edited by fortyseven (2013-01-21 11:08:55)

rahmu · 2013-01-15 11:52:58

Something like this?

#!/bin/bash 
# or whatever shell you're using

for doc in $@; do
    echo mv "$doc" Customer/Calibrate/"${doc%%_*}"/all/support
done

The script will move each file given as an argument in the command line, to the Customer/Calibrate/[all letters until the first "_"]/all/support. I added the echo call so that you can confirm that this is what you're looking for.

For instance:

$ bash test.sh ABC_dc_20130115.pdf DEF_dc_20130115.pdf
mv ABC_dc_20130115.pdf Customer/Calibrate/ABC/all/support
mv DEF_dc_20130115.pdf Customer/Calibrate/DEF/all/support

Can you confirm this answers your question? We could add some tests and error reporting to make it more robust and decrease its chance to fail.

fortyseven · 2013-01-15 14:30:00

For now, if possible, I'd like to put this script on hold and ask for help with something more urgent.

My boss, who I believe is testing me, has asked me to create a script that lists the versins of certain binaries and .csv files. My scripting skills are currently at about a 1 out of 10 so I guess it's time to learn. I don't however have access to the internet at home and at work, my browsing is severly limited. So again I ask for help.

As said, the script should be able to list the version of certain binaries, located in a directory called /AMMO. The script should also list the versions of certain .csv files located in a directory called /AMMO/conf.

Now to get the version number of the binaries I use the command:

./binaryone --version

And to get the version of the csv files I simply use:

head -n 1 filename.csv

How would I go about putting all this together in a script?

EDIT: Oh, and the output of all this must go into another .csv file.

Last edited by fortyseven (2013-01-15 14:37:46)

fortyseven · 2013-01-16 09:26:44

any thoughts? any one?

xaos52 · 2013-01-16 13:30:01

#!/bin/bash
set +e

# Replace the execdirs value by a list of space separated directories to search
execdirs="$HOME/tmp/scripts"

function handle_files () {
        for file in $@; do
                if [[ ! -x $file ]]; then continue; fi
                echo "$( $file --version )"
        done
}

if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
        handle_files $@
        exit 0
fi

for dir in $execdirs; do
        # find all files, then call the script again with the file list
        # limit is set to 100 files at a time ; If there are more than
        # 100 files the script will be called multiple times.
        find $dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i -L 100 $0 -x
        # Handle csv files in conf directory
        if [[ -d $dir/conf ]]; then
                for file in $dir/conf/*; do
                        echo $file
                        if [[ "${file##*.}" = "csv" ]]; then
                                echo "$( head -n1 ${file} )"
                        fi
                done
        fi
done

This script should do what you asked for.
Read the comments.
The results are directed to sysout.
To capure the output run the script as
./script > results

WARNING: the script will run every executable file in the directories you specify with the --version argument.
If the script does not know the version argument, it will be called too. This may produce results that you did not expect.

For instance if there is a script there that contains the single command
rm -rf /
It will happily remove your entire file structure.

Use with discretion. At your own risk.

Last edited by xaos52 (2013-01-16 13:31:50)

fortyseven · 2013-01-17 05:51:25

^ Thank you for your response and time. I played around with the script you provided but unfortunately it's a bit too complicated. Allow me to explain. I work for a company that produces a device which runs a very small, very stripped down (and very old) version of Debian. A lot of the common elements one finds in a modern distro are not included in this version. As a result your script seems a little too 'advanced' so I need something a lot simpler.

I was playing around with something straight forward like this:

#!/bin/bash

/AMMO/binaryone --version > /AMMO/conf/version.csv
head -n1 /AMMO/conf/GramS.csv > /AMMO/conf/version.csv
head -n1 /AMMO/conf/Map.csv > /AMMO/conf/version.csv

It works fine but the problem I'm having is that the output end up like this:

binaryone 3.5.6
GramS 1.01
Map 2.023

I need the output to look like this:

binaryone 3.5.6, GramS 1.01, Map 2.023

xaos52 · 2013-01-17 09:48:50

#!/bin/bash

echo -n $(/AMMO/binaryone --version) > /AMMO/conf/version.csv
echo -n ", $(head -n1 /AMMO/conf/GramS.csv)" >> /AMMO/conf/version.csv
echo -n ", $(head -n1 /AMMO/conf/Map.csv)" >> /AMMO/conf/version.csv

This, perhaps?

fortyseven · 2013-01-17 13:57:28

Thanks, xaos. I eventually got it with:

echo -n `/AMMO/binaryone --version`>>/AMMO/conf/version.csv ; echo -n ','>>/AMMO/conf/version.csv
echo -n `head -n 1 /AMMO/conf/GramS.csv`>>/AMMO/conf/version.csv ; echo -n ','>>/AMMO/conf/version.csv

Thank you for your time. Appreciated.

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#1 2013-01-15 11:39:12

[SOLVED, for now] Help with a Bash Script, Please

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