From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 27 11:03:07 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA26293 for current-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:03:07 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA26283 ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:03:04 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA07070; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:03:14 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506271803.LAA07070@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: when is the supscan done? To: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 11:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.Org (FreeBSD current) In-Reply-To: <199506271443.HAB14898@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jun 27, 95 07:43:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 908 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.Org Precedence: bulk > > > > >Also the long list of /usr/local/bin/supscan should be converted to a > >shell function and used something like this (my shell programming > >lessons predate functions, so syntax may be wrong here). > > > > Why not something more dynamic: > > cd /home/sup > foreach i ( * ) > supscan $i /home/sup > end > > Of course thats csh not sh, but you get the idea. and leaves out the fact that there are things in /home/sup that are NOT scanable sup collections. And I sure as heck don't want the cvs-* targets to have scan files, those are done on the fly! Nope, do not do this!! Use what I wrote, correcting any syntax errors, it was not so off the cuff, but a thought out replacement that does exactly what we have now in 1/10th the lines. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD