On Dec 7, 2007 3:04 PM, J. Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > Need your help here on the task automation. Basically here is what I want to > do. > > 1. I have around 1000 folders that the name of the folders is tied to the > username, eg. folder gilbert belong to user gilbert, etc. > 2. Inside these 1000 folders, there is a sub folder and a file called > win.ini that contained a lot of parameters. All users have the same file and > maybe same contents. > 3. I want to do a backup copy of win.ini to eg. win_backup.ini. > 3. After backup, I need to change certain parameters inside win.ini for > every folders, eg. homes=p:\windows\testing to homes=c:\windows\testing. > 4. In addition to that I need to append 2 new lines at the end of the file > and pre checking must be done, if the 2 lines are there then don't need to > append. > 5. Lastly, I want to change all the 1000 folders, including sub-folders > ownership to the owner's name, eg. change ownership of folder gilbert\* to > gilbert. > > Can the above task be automated using shell script or advanced programming > language, eg. Java is needed? > > Please help. Thanks. > > Cheers, > J.Lo > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > >
Hi, these operations can be done in shell scripts. And it maybe better to write several short scripts and do these things one by one, unless you need to conduct these operations often. A quick think gives these scripts, but they need some "trial-and-error". Copy the whole directory to another place and try on the copy. 3. for i in *; do cp $i/win.ini $i/win_backup.ini; done 3. for i in *; do cat $i/win.ini | sed -e 's/p:\\windows\\testing/c:\windows\testing/g' > $i/win.new && mv $i/win.new $i/win.ini; done The "pre-checking" in the 4th step is a little more tricky, esp. if the two lines is possiblly not at the end of the files... 5. for i in *; do chown -R $i $i; done Cheers, PQ -- Best Regards, Puqing Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
