Changing .zoo archive to .lzh archive: help!

[uunet!bria!mike]

In an article, cs.arizona.edu!dave (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>
>I am trying to write a script that will allow me to convert zoo archives
>to lharc archives under Unix.  Here's what I have so far:
>
>mkdir xxx
>cd xxx
>zoo xq// ../$1.zoo
>lharc aq ../$1.lzh * `no-dot .*`
>cd ..
>rm -r xxx
>
>Where "no-dot" is a simple program that echos back everything in argv[] that
>isn't "." or ".."

Actually, you can use ``find'' for this purpose ...

	lharc aq ../$lzh `find . \( ! -name "." -a ! -name ".." \) -print`

So, how about this snippet ...?

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dir=.dir$$
mkdir $dir || exit
for archive in $*; do
   cd $dir
   zoo xq// ../${archive}.zoo
   lharc aq ../${archive}.lzh `find . \( ! -name "." -a ! -name ".." \) -print`
   cd ..
   rm -fr $dir
   mkdir $dir || exit
done
rm -fr $dir

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>Now, I could write a program to generate a temporary directory name using
>getpid() and some unlikely template, like "xx-######-temp".  What I need to
>know is:
>
>  1.  Is it a reasonable assumption that no two concurrent getpid()'s will
>      return the same value?

It is _very_ reasonable to assume this.  Updates to the kernel proc table 
are atomic, insuring that no two "concurrent" processes have the same PID.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
-- 
Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles| Opinions stated are not even my own.
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