[plug] bash script help needed

[Daniel Pittman]

Thanks.  One stray character in there, and public humiliation follows. ;)

Daniel

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 23:45, Daniel Axtens <danielax at gmail.com> wrote:
> s/$f{filename}/${filename}/
>
> -- d
>
> On 11/09/2011, at 2:29 PM, Chris Griffin wrote:
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>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 22:15, Chris Griffin <griffinster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a large collection of special binary log files that I need to export
>> > to ascii format.
>> > This system has a utility to do this but it will only take one file name at
>> > a time, no wild carding.
>> >
>> > Like:   exportlog -i input-filename -o output-filename
>> >
>> > the file names all look like:  2011-05-19_235900.log
>> >
>> > the date part for this lot will all start with 2011 but the rest of the date
>> > and time fields can and do vary.
>> > Could someone please help out with a bash script to do this, I can easily
>> > put all the names into a text file if necessary.
>>
>> All of them?  Easy.
>>
>> ] for filename in *.log; do echo exportlog -i "$f{filename}" -o
>> "${filename/.log/.text}"; done
>>
>> See the bash manual for the details on the text substitution I did
>> during variable expansion on output.  (Searching for '##' or '%%' is
>> easier than searching for the forward slash, in the documentation,
>> FWIW).
>>
>> Put whatever pattern into the '*.log' bit you want.
>>
>> Daniel
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>> Maybe not quite right?
>>
>>
>> [root at server01]# for filename in *.log; do echo exportlog -i "$f{filename}" -o "${filename/.log/.text}"; done
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-19_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-20_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-21_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-22_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-23_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-24_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-25_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-26_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-27_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-28_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-29_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-30_235900.text
>> exportlog -i {filename} -o 2011-05-31_235900.text
>> [root at server01]#
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