Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:16:48 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell scripts that hang around forever Message-ID: <200201281716.g0SHGqD12091@lists.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <20020128021836.GA87617@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200201280119.g0S1JHD97804@lists.unixathome.org>
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On 27 Jan 2002 at 20:18, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 27), Dan Langille said: > > Folks: have a look at this FreshPorts shell script and let me know if > > there is a better way to do this. > > Apart from maybe using echo instead of forking 'ls', and caching the > list: > > while : ; do > FILES=`echo *` > if [ "$FILES" != "*" ] ; then > for i in $FILES ; do $HOME/scripts/test-freebsd-cvs.sh $i ; done > fi > done > > it looks fine. Good ideas. Thanks. I'll go with that despite my being so proud of even *knowing* about xargs and wanting to use it.... -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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