Igor wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> Igor wrote: >>> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>> >>>> [snip] <SNIP> >> Hmm... I wasn't able to get your shortcut working. First it didn't >> fit in the shortcut wizards textbox. > > Yeah, it does push the command length limits, doesn't it? ;-)
=-) that is quickly done with MS-stuff IMO. >> Then after having put it in "isysbash.bat" it failed with >> >> $ isysbash.bat >> bash: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)' >> bash: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file $ cat >> isysbash.bat @echo off <snip> >> Counting the parentheses; They match! Heh? What is the problem? > > This is the standard batch file % problem -- it interprets all %* as > variables (and the ":" as a modifier). You need to quote each %, > i.e. use Argh! I was in bash only mode. <SNIP> >> Your scripting also have a problem at hour boundaries. (Launch it >> "imaginary" at 11:59 or 23:59). > > Yes, true. I've looked long and in vain for a way of converting the > date from pure second counts (you can convert *to* the second count > using the "%s" GNU extension). If anyone finds such a way, please > let me know. FYI: The DATE() and TIME() functions of any (ANSI) REXX interpreter has nice features wrt this; e.g. "Regina" is available at sf.net (http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/) and compiled OOTB in cygwin at version 3.0 (I've yet to try the more recent versions; current is 3.3, then we also have a new gcc since then). -- example -- #!/usr/bin/rexx parse arg secs . say 'Current time:' time('n') say 'Adding' secs 'seconds:' time('n',(time('s')+secs)//(24*60*60),'s') /* time(ouput_format,input_time,input_time_format) */ -- cut -- > Of course, one can always use perl, but that seems a > bit heavyweight for such a purpose. Well, that depends on the competition... pure bash is ofcourse the least resource hungry; then you have these at least ;-) $ ls -l `which rexx` -rwxr-xr-x 1 Hannu 389468 Nov 3 2002 /usr/bin/rexx* $ ls -l `which perl` -rwxr-xr-x 1 Hannu 11776 Aug 19 21:47 /usr/bin/perl* $ ls -l `which awk` lrwxrwxrwx 1 Hannu 8 Aug 13 21:55 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk.exe* $ ls -l `which gawk` -rwxr-xr-x 1 Hannu 278528 Aug 13 21:55 /usr/bin/gawk* $ rexx <<EOF > parse version text > say text > EOF REXX-Regina_3.0 4.95 25 Apr 2002 >From the above it seems perl would be the quickest to load, but then; it does a lot of things w modules and such... <SNIP> >> I've attached my "sysbash", which WFM. >> Who knows there might be problems with it too ;-P > > Well, not so much as a problem, just seems too complex. Why call > *bash* through *cmd /c*??? Why bother with control codes? Ahh... ;-) I knew there was issues, I even found more; addition in bash expects OCTAL numbers if there is a leading ZERO. This script is almost a year old and I use it only occassionally. Such is life. > Wouldn't > something like the below script be much simpler? > > --------------------- BEGIN script --------------------- #!/bin/bash > export CYGWIN="$CYGWIN check_case:adjust" > AT="`which at 2>/dev/null`" > [ -z "$AT" ] && echo "\"at.exe\" not found" >&2 && exit 1 > CMD="$(cygpath -aw /bin/bash.exe) --login -i" > HHMM="$(echo "$(date "+%H +%M")" | awk > '{printf("%02d:%02d",($2>58)?($1+1)%24:$1,($2>58)?0:($2+1))}')" > "$AT" "$HHMM" /interactive $CMD > # Countdown > secs=$((60 - $(date +%S))); while [ $secs -ne 0 ]; do echo -ne > 'Please wait' $secs 'seconds for the shell \r'; sleep 1; secs=$(( > $secs - 1 )); done ---------------------- END script > ---------------------- Looks nice, though you're "cheating" with awk ;-). It might also be that this has the same race issue as my script has; execution under certain conditions might be so slow that the deployment of "at" comes too late - postponing the launch 24 hours. > Oh, and at.exe doesn't exist under Win9x normally, but there's a MSDN > sample that can be compiled and should work on Win9x: > <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vcsample98/html/vcsmptask > sched.asp>. Ahh... Thats good to know if you're running W98. Well, nuff' for now - isn't it? /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems --72--> ** mailing list preference; please keep replies on list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
