November 10, 2009

• More *nix Scripting

  I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but ever time I think of it, I’m at home and I can’t get to this script–incompatibility with Snow Leopard and our network.

  The trick that made this script useful for me (and saved me from having tor really think outside of the box) was basename

  I know I need to comment this script so they know who to come sue when it doesn’t work and actually explain what the hell is going on here, but I wanted to hear from my *nix versed readers.

  I’m also considering x-posting to unixadmin for recommendations on how to clean up the script or what kind of things I should add. For instance, a suggestion was made to check for 0 byte files. Also, it seems like on the day, just echo didn’t produce a blank line. I considered echo n but I didn’t think that would work either.

  Nevertheless, here’s my latest script made public for review, critique and criticism.

  
  

  #! /bin/bash
  
  for x in `ls |grep backup`
  
  	do
  		echo Creating DB `basename $x .backup`
  		createdb -E SQL-ASCII -O libsoft `basename $x .backup`
  							
  
  		echo restoring `basename $x .backup`
  		pg_restore --no-owner -d `basename $x .backup` $x
  
  		echo NEXT
  	done
  

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