* Praise [Dec 06. 2001 00:46]:

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.

Well, you maybe want to try another approach to share the files. Why not start an NFS server some place? Or use CVS? -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.

Il 00:57, giovedì 6 dicembre 2001, Mads Martin Jørgensen ha scritto:

* Praise [Dec 06. 2001 00:46]:

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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.

Well, you maybe want to try another approach to share the files. Why not start an NFS server some place? Or use CVS?

Let me explain my situation: there are about 20 user of my system, mainly with ssh and sftp. There are also 3 users which could use Samba (and they actually do). They need to share with eachother some files: that's easy. They only need to link their files in a common directory and adjust permission. The problem is that they do not want to do that because they are very lazy to learn new commands (they are new to linux). That's why I thought about this script. I have not looked for cvs, because I do not know it yet. I know what it is for, but it is not what I need. Praise

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