Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:34:12 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Darryl Hoar <darryl@osborne-ind.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - Shell Script Question Message-ID: <20000208233412.D3663@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <001101bf7273$e44dc250$070101c0@ruraltel.net> References: <001101bf7273$e44dc250$070101c0@ruraltel.net>
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Darryl Hoar wrote:
> ls -tl | grep '1999' | awk '{print "mv " $9 " /home/darryl/test"}'
>
> but it does not 'execute' the mv command. How do I get this cooking ?
Everyone's given a different way, but the simple answer is to pipe the
output of the above into sh to execute the commands.
> BTW, I don't plan on doing this a bunch, so I would preferr Not to
> install, learn
> perl. Instead, use the shell.
You don't have to install perl, it's in the base system (/usr/bin/perl),
but you'd still have to learn it. I'd recommend learning Perl, if not
for this, then for other things, it's bloody useful.
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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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