[newbie] bash script to send files to tar from rox-filer

2003-07-20 Thread Eric Huff
I program quite a bit in other languages, but am somewhat new to bash, so this may not be the most elegant program, but i'm having fun learning it! Anyway, i put this in ~/Choices/SendTo as tar_rox In rox-filer, if you select several files or dirs and Send To tar_rox, it'll tar them up in the

Re: [newbie] bash script to send files to tar from rox-filer

2003-07-20 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:59:19 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: In rox-filer, if you select several files or dirs and Send To tar_rox, it'll tar them up in the same directory w/o the entire path to the files/dirs. (any structure w/i the dir will be preserved). Ok. I am more than new

Re: [newbie] bash script to send files to tar from rox-filer

2003-07-20 Thread Eric Huff
In rox-filer, if you select several files or dirs and Send To tar_rox, it'll tar them up in the same directory w/o the entire path to the files/dirs. (any structure w/i the dir will be preserved). Ok. I am more than new to bash scritpting, but won't ROX archive do this? Probably. I

Re: [newbie] bash script to send files to tar from rox-filer

2003-07-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:59:19 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The if chunk's purpose is to strip the filenames off the arguments, since they come in with full paths, and to find the path of the files (since pwd is ~/). I don't know if `basename` will help you with that or not. Todd

Re: [newbie] bash script to send files to tar from rox-filer

2003-07-20 Thread Eric Huff
I don't know if `basename` will help you with that or not. Yes! That's way better. That's the area where i will have to learn the most: what functions are out there. It's fun to learn the hard way, too, though... Thanks for the command, eric Here's the basename version: