[Discuss] Command line question

Steven Kurylo sk at infinitepigeons.org
Thu Jul 27 08:12:28 PDT 2006


> for each student in repository
>         if a3 folder exists in students module
>                 copy/export a3 contents only to current directory
>         else
>                 could not find assignment 3 so add to list
>                 of ones to check out manually

Assuming the directory structure from above something like this would work.

for userdir in `ls ~temp`;do
result=`find $userdir -type d -maxdepth 2 -name a3`
if [ -d $result ]; then
cvs export or cp command here
else
echo $userdir did not have an a3 directory
fi
done

-- 
Steven Kurylo


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