Re: [CentOS] [OT] Simple Shell Script (while loop)

2009-06-06 Thread David Goldsmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Bensley wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I can not find the corrent syntax for what I am trying to acheive with a > while loop. Having said that I'm not exactly sure what you would call it > so I have been googling with no success probably for that reason

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Simple Shell Script (while loop)

2009-06-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:33:21AM -0400, JohnS wrote: > --- > I'm no Bash expert but is there a real good reason "pass" would not be > used in place of continue? I'm just really currious Because pass is not a valid bash language construct, at least in 3.2.25.

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Simple Shell Script (while loop)

2009-06-03 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 02:59 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:44:29AM +0100, James Bensley wrote: > > There are many ways to do this; building on your code > snippet it would be: > > #!/bin/bash > find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read FOLDER > do >

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Simple Shell Script (while loop)

2009-06-03 Thread James Bensley
Thanks guys the "continue" command was what I was looking for. Also to those who pointed out the lack of quotation marks around the string, they are on my original script but somehow vanished during the copy and paste operation between my shell window and browser...werid?!?! Still If I hadn't of h

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Simple Shell Script (while loop)

2009-06-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:44:29AM +0100, James Bensley wrote: There are many ways to do this; building on your code snippet it would be: #!/bin/bash find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read FOLDER do if [ "$FOLDER" = "./not_this_folder_oh_no!" ]; then cont

[CentOS] [OT] Simple Shell Script (while loop)

2009-06-03 Thread James Bensley
Hey Guys, I can not find the corrent syntax for what I am trying to acheive with a while loop. Having said that I'm not exactly sure what you would call it so I have been googling with no success probably for that reason. I am just working with some sub directories except there is one I don't wan