bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) (01/06/85)
Here is a useful shellscript that can be used for downloading
groups of files into your Mac with a single command line. It adds
the usual wildcard filenames to macput and uses macput (which
must be in your path). The option used by macput is determined
by the extension of the filename: .rsrc uses the -r option,
and .data uses the -d option, and all other files are
transmitted with the -u option..
You can download an entire directory with the single command
macsend *
Then go out for a beer, watch TV, etc. macsend will alert you
by ringing the Mac bell (gong?) when it is finished. With a
two drive system, you can download nearly 400 KB of information
by having the active MacTerminal document on the nearly empty
disk in the external drive and MacTerminal itself in the
internal drive.
Name the fillowing file "macsend" and set it to be executable:
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#! /bin/sh
# Shellscript for transmitting groups of files to a Macintosh via macput.
# Invokes /bin/sh upon entry.
# Files with the extension .rsrc will be sent as resource files using
# the -r option.
# Files with the extension .data will be sent as data files using
# the -d option.
# All other files will be sent as text files using the -u option.
# This shellscript will ignore directories and files that are unreadable.
# Wildcards may be used. Thus, to transmit all files beginning with
# a capital letter, use "macsend [A-Z]*"
# Upon termination of the operation, the Macintosh bell will ring
# three times. This is your clue to leave the TV and get
# back to work.
# Be sure that macput is in your path, otherwise the shellscript won't work!
#
mesg n
for f in $*
do
if [ -f $f ] && [ -r $f ]
then
case $f in
*.data)
echo " macput -d $f"
macput -d $f
;;
*.rsrc)
echo " macput -r $f"
macput -r $f
;;
*)
echo " macput -u $f"
macput -u $f
;;
esac
fi
done
echo
echo
echo
mesg y
--
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal
Bill Jefferys 8-%
Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail)
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