[plug] bash script help needed

[Chris Griffin]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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> >
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>
>
>
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>


Not at all, I appreciate the help. Thank folks.
Chris
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