Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 December 2001 00.45, Praise wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am just a beginner at shell scripting, but I need to make a script which:
> 1) hardlinks the content of a directory into another place
> 2) sets up the correct permissions of files in the other place
>
> I have to do this because the user of my system do a mess when they want to
> share some file each other.
>
> This is what I have tried:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #Syntax is supposed to be link.sh <directory>
>
> case "$1" in
>         --help) echo "Syntax is link.sh <dir>";
>                 echo "If you want to share some files only, create the dir
> 	    before this command";
>                 exit 0
>         ;;
>         *)
>                 export WHOAMI=`whoami`;
>                 mkdir /home/share/"$1"."$WHOAMI"/ ;
>                 ln ./"$1"/* /home/share/"$1"."$WHOAMI"/. ;
>                 chmod -R a+r /home/share/"$1"."$WHOAMI" ;
>                 chmod -R g-w /home/share/"$1"."$WHOAMI" ;
>                 chmod -R o-w /home/share/"$1"."$WHOAMI" ;
>                 chmod a+x /home/share/"$1"."$WHOAMI" ;
>
>                 #Ok, it's not very recorsive
>                 for i in /home/share/"$1".$WHOAMI/* ; do [ -d "$i" ] &&
> 				 \ chmod a+x "$i" ; done ;
>                 #and there is no error handling
>                 exit 0
>         ;;

Somewhere around here there should probably be a line 'esac' to end the case 
statement.

>
> exit 0;
> #############END
>
> This script creates a mistake (syntax error near unexpected token exit).
> I cant work around it, any advice?
>
> Praise

You do know you can't create hardlinks across partition boundaries, don't you?

regards
Anders