app request - pbzip2

2007-02-22 Thread Joey Officer
I dug through the documentation for pbzip2, and it would seem that as long as the required libraries were present that I could just compile the pbzip2 application. Unfortunately I was unsuccessful. pbzip2 source can be found here: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/pbzip2-0.9.6.tar.gz Thanks in ad

Re: cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

2007-01-11 Thread Joey Officer
heh, I seem to have sparked a short debate on bash scripting syntax/verbage. Suffice it to say, my original way worked, this way would most likely work, and I'm sure there are a number of alternative ways to get the same egg scrambled. I appreciate everyone's input, I really just wanted to sh

Re: cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

2007-01-10 Thread Joey Officer
And thank you as well Brian. I'm still fairly new to bash scripting, and am unfamiliar with all of the tools that make our lives easier. Thanks for the additions. Regards, joey Brian Dessent wrote: Saro Engels wrote: I wasn't right: It should be: $ file=*.pdf; file=`echo $file | sed "s/

Re: cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

2007-01-10 Thread Joey Officer
TECTED] -s test -a $file < sample.txt Hope someone finds some use for it. Dave Korn wrote: On 10 January 2007 16:03, Joey Officer wrote: I'm using it send attachments, but I would like to be able to send multiple attachments using a wildcard expression. Unfortunately when I specify so

Re: cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

2007-01-10 Thread Joey Officer
I'm using it send attachments, but I would like to be able to send multiple attachments using a wildcard expression. Unfortunately when I specify something like *.pdf , it only grabs the first PDF file within the directory. my sample command line is something along the following: $ email.exe

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Joey Officer
What you are referring to was the 'soft' restart. If you held the SHIFT key (either I think) during a 'Shutdown -> Restart; it would restart only the windows software. This worked on all versions of windows through windows Me! ... It does not work on any current version of Windows, due to th

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

2006-10-25 Thread Joey Officer
user12m2.923s sys 7m48.806s Brian Dessent wrote: Joey Officer wrote: for i in $( ls *.gz ); do This needlessly forks a subshell process and a /bin/ls process for no apparent reason. For better performance and readability just let the shell do the globbing: for i in

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

2006-10-25 Thread Joey Officer
I can certainly update the script, and will let you know how it runs... Thanks for the input, joey Brian Dessent wrote: Joey Officer wrote: for i in $( ls *.gz ); do This needlessly forks a subshell process and a /bin/ls process for no apparent reason. For better

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

2006-10-25 Thread Joey Officer
Actually, I just found the specific reference under the experimental bash release, I see the notes now. Thanks for the quick response, my script is running as intended, I can actually get some work done today ;) Thanks again, joey Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Joey Officer wrote: I have a

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

2006-10-25 Thread Joey Officer
Larry, Thankyou! That indeed did solve my problem. I did a quick glance in the direction over at cygwin.com but did not see a specific reference to the recent bash release. Do you have a link I could read? Joey Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Joey Officer wrote: I have a script that I run

cygwin out of sync with version?

2006-10-25 Thread Joey Officer
I have a script that I run, the script is: findme.bash: #!/bin/bash for i in $( ls *.gz ); do echo Searching $i zcat -c $i | grep $1 >> searchresults.txt echo Finsihed searching $i , moving on to the next file... done Now, this used to w