Directory, dynamically grabbing names

[cyprus106]

I've only got a basic working knowledge of unix shell scripts, so I'm still struggling to get a little more advanced functionality into my sh here...

I'm running a for statement to grab every .tgz file in a particular directory, then I unzip them, one by one, and run the program inside. So I Unzip the tar, run the prog, run a different program, diff the results, then go to the next tar. I don't know how to dynamically grab each program, though. I can't just sed or something for a file name, that I know of, because inside the tar is a qamake.sh, testN.sh, testN.cln, testN.diff... Can anybody tell me how to dynamically grab my shell scripts? I can post my code if necessary. Thanks a lot in advance!

Cyprus

 

[hoinz]

Not sure if I understood your reqirements; you may have to give more details about what the contents of your tar file might be.
For a start, you may get a list of all the files in your tar file with 'tar tvf'; then grep for '.sh' and use awk or cut to extract the filename.
Something like
PROG=`tar tvf filename | fgrep .sh | cut -c...`
Does this help?

 

[cyprus106]

Wewll, basically, after I unzip each test, i.e. test3.tar, inside that tar file is a coordinating shell script, like test3.sh... so basically, forget the tar file and I just need to be able to have the compiler dynamically say "ok this is the tar, now i have to find the specific executable on this." There's 2 scripts, one makefile.sh and the testN.sh one... I need to find whichever one has "make" in it's name first then I need to find whichever one has "test" in it's name after that. For one I just don't know how to do that... and second, there's three files that have "test" in their names, but only one that's a shell script.

Sorry, is that a little clearer now? Thanks a lot for the help so far, that kind of puts me on the right track.

Cyprus

 

[PHV]

Parse the output produced by a tar -t command:
for f in `tar -t test3.tar`
do
case $f in
*make*.sh) : extract and do make stuff;;
*test*.sh) : extract and do test stuff;;
esac
done

Hope This Helps, PH.
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