[lug] scripting on linux!! or "Oh yeah!!!"

[John Starkey]

One for Linux!!

I posted to this list at 10:50. Recieved a personal reply from Chip within
10 minutes and a few others within 15. And an hour after that I've managed
to do, with the help of the list, something which would take about 2 hours
to do in Windoze. So one hour to ask for help, relay the parameters,
recieve an answer run the two scripts and it's done. Right now I'd be
restarting Windoze because it had crashed when I moved the mouse too fast
(lol!!).

Anyone have Bill's number. We gotta talk about this tech support issue :}

Thanks,

John

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, John Starkey wrote:

> It's scary how close the thread is to the grep thread, both issues
> (related to using grep) coming up the same day.
> 
> I have one weekly job that involves 70 files as a simple slide show. These
> will be broken down into groups of 10 (approx.). Normally when I'm coding
> (html) this many files I'll go to a land of Windoze cubicles and use
> HomeSite due to it's find and replace abilities. I do this knowing well
> enough that Linux can do a hell of a lot better job but I can't find the
> time to get into shell scripting. It's one of those investments that
> I know will pay off but, like today, I have to have 70 files uploaded by
> tomorrow morning at the very latest.
> 
> So with that said, is there anyone with a vengance against Windoze that
> could help with a couple scripts. If I can pull this off it'd make a great
> argument against Windoze at work. Where someone said just last week "yea
> but look at what Bill has done for the world".  
> 
> 1) I need to create 70 files, all identical except for 2 numbers in the
> <img> tag. These two numbers need to increment relative to the file name
> (file1 -> <img src="001">; file2 -> <img src="002>) ( a slide show ).
> 
> 2) When the client sends the layout I'll need to break these 70 files down
> into groups and rename both the files and images (140 files at this
> point). I could probably work this without changing the names.
> 
> 3) Certain files will need navigation buttons. So I'll need to specify
> which file and where in the file to place these buttons. 
> 
> I estimate 4 hours to do all this in HomeSite. I have a feeling this can
> be done in less than an hour in Linux.
> 
> What confuses me the most is the xargs (Build and execute command line
> from standard input)?? Does this mean you make the file stdin and execute
> the commands from what the file returns?? Why not just ./scriptfile and
> get it over with.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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