Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:22:49 -0400 From: "Dave [Nexus]" <dave@nexusinternetsolutions.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: shell/awk scripting help - parsing directories to gain user/file information for commands Message-ID: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEBEPEAB.dave@nexusinternetsolutions.net>
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have a number of uses for this where I am trying to get away from maintaining lengthy static files which contain all the statically entered commands to run for a cron job... for example; - need to run webalizer of a number of user websites and directories - can run webalizer without a customized conf file, but need to provide hostname, outputdir and other such variables from the command line - can list all the log files which give the appropriate information # ls /www/*/logs/*.access_log generates... /www/user1/.logs/user1domain1.com.access_log /www/user1/.logs/user1domain2.com.access_log /www/user2/.logs/user2domain1.com.access_log /www/user2/.logs/user2domain2.com.access_log /www/user3/.logs/user3domain1.com.access_log /www/user3/.logs/user3domain2.com.access_log what I am trying to script is something that does; <pseudo code> for i in /www/*/logs/*.access_log; ereg (user)(domain_name) from $i; do webalizer -n $domain_name -o /www/$user/stats/; done </pseudo code> ...as this would eliminate human error in maintaining a file which contains the appropriate lines to handle this via cron or something every night. This is one example, there are a slew of other similar applications that I would use this for. have played with awk as well, just can't wrap my head around this (not a shell scripting person by trade). Any guidance or insight would be appreciated. Dave
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