AW: Problem with basename
klaus.berndl@sdm.de
klaus.berndl@sdm.de
Fri Feb 16 06:41:00 GMT 2001
No, i donôt have any special characters in the filenames.
And renaming $file in $F doesnôt help too.
Hmm, very mysterious!
Thanks,
Klaus
>
> klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:
> >
> > i have written the following function:
> >
> > function check-el-compile ()
> > {
> > for file in $*; do
> > elcfile=`basename $file .el`.elc
> > if [ ! -f "$elcfile" ]; then
> > missinglist="$missinglist $file"
> > fi
> > done
> > echo "Not compiled Files: $missinglist"
> > unset el elc missinglist
> > }
> >
> > This function checks which of the passed *.el files are not
> compiled, i.e. the file <basename>.elc
> > does not exist. Example: abc.el is compiled if abc.elc
> exists in the same directory.
> >
> > Now the problem: if i pass the *.el files as argument to
> this function all is working fine.
> > But if i write the functon like follows:
> >
> > function check-el-compile ()
> > {
> > for file in `ls *.el`; do
> > # same as above.
> >
> > then the basename call doesnôt work, i.e. it always returns $file.
> > It seems that the output of ls contains "something" which
> confuses basename?!
> >
> > Any ideas what can be the problem?
> >
>
> Not really. Do you have any *.el files with whitespace characters or
> any non alphanumeric characters in the filename?
>
> You could modify your script to have the for loop call the
> function. I
> would also not use the work `file' as a variable name. I would change
> it to `File' or just F to prevent confusion with the executable of the
> same name.
>
> Earnie.
>
>
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