Archive for August, 2009

Superior strength

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

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rsync

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Note that doubling a single-quote inside a single-quoted string gives you a single-quote; likewise for double-quotes (though you need to pay attention to which quotes your shell is parsing and which quotes rsync is parsing).

– rsync man page

Ow, my head hurts.

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Directory tree

Monday, August 10th, 2009

A handy Bash script to display a tree view of a directory, adapted from http://www.centerkey.com/tree. This version omits .svn and .git directories, and uses the find utility.

echo
if [ "$1" != "" ]  #if parameter exists, use as base folder
   then cd "$1"
   fi
pwd
find . \! \( -path "*.svn*" -or -path "*.git*" \) -type d | \
   sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/   /' -e 's/-/|/'
if [ `ls -F -1 | grep "/" | wc -l` = 0 ]
   then echo "   -> no sub-directories"
   fi
echo
exit

Example use:

[cgansen@Crystal-Frontier ~]$ tree projects/self.d-struct.org/wp-admin/
 
/Users/cgansen/projects/self.d-struct.org/wp-admin
   .
   |-css
   |-images
   |-import
   |-includes
   |-js
 
[cgansen@Crystal-Frontier ~]$

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