It works

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

Thanks for all your help. My script now works. I'm in the process of
testing it to make sure it changes the flags right and everything. Am I
right that I can pass all the flags to mv except recursive (-r)? 

Thanks again,

Ben
 

Ben Luey
lueyb@carleton.edu
ICQ: 19144397

No building is too tall for even the smallest dog to lift its leg on.  
       -- Jim Hightower
#!/bin/sh

for FLAGS in $*
do

FLAGS=`echo $FLAGS |sed -e "s/--/dumbgrep5664/"`
DASH=`echo $FLAGS |grep dumbgrep`
if [ ! -z $DASH ]; then
if [ $FLAGS != dumbgrep5664recursive ]; then


FLAGS=`echo $FLAGS |sed -e "s/dumbgrep5664/--/"`
NEWFLAGS="$NEWFLAGS $FLAGS"
fi

else
RECURE1=`echo $FLAGS |grep - |grep r`
RECURE2=`echo $FLAGS |grep - |grep R`
echo $RECURE1
echo $RECURE2

if [ ! -z $RECURE1 ]; then
NEWFLAGS="$NEWFLAGS `echo $FLAGS |sed -e "s/r//"`"  
elif [ ! -z $RECURE2 ]; then
NEWFLAGS="$NEWFLAGS `echo $FLAGS |sed -e "s/R//"`"

else
NEWFLAGS="$NEWFLAGS $FLAGS"
fi
fi
done


if [ -d /home/delete/$LOGNAME ]; then

echo "mv $NEWFLAGS /home/delete/$LOGNAME " |sed -e "s/ - //"

else
echo mkdir /home/delete/$LOGNAME
echo "mv $NEWFLAGS /home/delete/$LOGNAME " |sed -e "s/ - //"
fi