Re: Sounds trivial, but it's not (I don't think)

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3 total messages Started by Marek Pawlowski Fri, 28 Sep 1990 17:51

#1270

Author: Marek Pawlowski
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 17:51

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On 27 Sep 90 21:04:58 GMT, Sean Fulton <sean@utoday.uucp> wrote:

> [..snipped..]
> This has been somewhat reliable, but only allows for one file
> per call. Given that there is a modem shortage on the remote end, this
> is unacceptable.
>
> So, does anyone have any ideas on how to do something like:
>
> ~!for a in `ls files`
> [..snipped..]

Simple, if I understood your question correctly.  Essentially, this relies on
doing the following:

cd /directory/containing/the/files/to/be/sent/out
for a in *
do
        foo
        [...]
        bar
done

Rather simple.
So, when do I get my free subscription to Unix Today?  :)

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Re: Sounds trivial, but it's not (I don't think)

#1288

Author: Sean Fulton
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 05:18

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In article <1990Sep28.175140.17023@bkj386.uucp> marekp@bkj386.UUCP (Marek Pawlowski) writes:
>
>Simple, if I understood your question correctly.  Essentially, this relies on
>doing the following:
>
>cd /directory/containing/the/files/to/be/sent/out
>for a in *
>do
>        foo
>        [...]
>        bar
>done
>
>Rather simple.
>So, when do I get my free subscription to Unix Today?  :)

Consider your subscription done. But ... you didn't answer my
question. Assuming foo is cu [system]<$a, you've accomplished exactly
what I have. The hard part is being able to pipe all those files into
one cu. 

As an update, I tried

	cu [system] <sender

	where sender is:

	~$send.sh
	~.
	And send.sh is similar to what you described above (for a in
... cat $a). This seems to work, unless anyone has a better idea.


-- 
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Re: Sounds trivial, but it's not (I don't think)

#1303

Author: Paul Chamberlain
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 16:51

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On 27 Sep 90 21:04:58 GMT, Sean Fulton <sean@utoday.uucp> wrote:
> [..snipped..]
> This has been somewhat reliable, but only allows for one file
> per call. Given that there is a modem shortage on the remote end, this
> is unacceptable.
>
> So, does anyone have any ideas on how to do something like:
>
> ~!for a in `ls files`
> [..snipped..]

This may be functionally equivalent to an earlier response but it
was not clear from that response.

I didn't see the original posting but I will assume (since it's harder),
that you want to sleep between each file.  Hopefully, it's obvious what
to do if this isn't the case.

You could do one of the following:

	for a in `ls files`
	do
		echo sleep 10
		echo cat $a
		echo sleep 10
	done > /tmp/cu.cmd

	cu system <<\!
	~$sh /tmp/cu.cmd
	!

	rm /tmp/cu.cmd

or this might even work:

	for a in `ls files`
	do
		sleep 10
		cat $a
		sleep 10
	done | cu system

These weren't tested.  I think the '\!' is required to keep the $sh from
being expanded by the shell.  Extra credit for making the temp filename
a variable.

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