Shell script help needed

[Dan "1461 days of Bush is 1462 too many..." Smith]

In article <1872 at loral.UUCP> jlh at loral.UUCP (Physically Pffft) writes:
>Our application has it's source code in 9 directories, and I find that
>often I need to make similar changes in all 9 directories.  Manually
>cd'ing into each directory is error prone, some are skipped and others
>are entered more than once.  I'd like to write a shell script to automate

	I deal with this every single day! :-)

	Here's my strategy/tutorial:

	use foreach to pushd all of the directories in a tree
		[optionally set up a label]
		do whatever needs to be done the directory
		pop the directory
		[optionally goto the label]


	so from csh you could have: (skip RCS directories)

	% foreach i (`find -name RCS -prune -o -type d -print`)
	? pushd $i
	? end

	to push all all of the directories in a tree...be careful
	with $cdpath, or you may not get what you want...

	How I usually do it...

	I have an alias called "fed" (foreach directory) that sources
	a script via:

	alias	fed	'source ~$misc_bin_person/bin/ptree'

	and here is "ptree" (pushd tree)

	----
	# note, this must be sourced...
	set savecdpath=($cdpath)
	set cdpath=( . .. ../.. ../../.. ../../../../..)
	echo -n looking at directories...
	foreach i (`find -name RCS -prune -o -type d -print`)
		p $i
	end
	set cdpath=($savecdpath)
	unset savecdpath
	----

	...and here are my relevant cd/pushd/popd aliases:

	-----
#
#	aliases for setting the prompt and getting around
#
#	fillstr is a var used in prompt, contains "(level)" when dirs are pushed

set fillstr=""
set end=":-)"

alias	prompt_set 	'set prompt_head=$cwd:h;set prompt="\! $HOST"":$prompt_head:t/$cwd:t$fillstr $end "'
alias	cd	'set old=$cwd; chdir \!*; prompt_set; if -e .locrc source .locrc'
alias	dir_number	'set fillstr; set dnum=`dirs`; shift dnum; if ($#dnum >= 1) set fillstr=" ($#dnum)"'
alias	p	'set o2=$cwd; pushd \!* > /dev/null; set pdirs=`dirs`; echo $pdirs:gt; set old=$o2; dir_number; prompt_set'
alias	pp	'set o2=$cwd; popd; set old=$o2; dir_number; prompt_set'
alias	fed	'source ~$misc_bin_person/bin/ptree'
	-----

	Now...getting back to handling a tree, I go up to the root
directory of a product and type "fed".  All of the directories
get pushed, and the prompt indicates how many levels down I am.
If I'm going to do something fairly repetitive, I may set up
a label via:

% foo:

	and then do whatever I need...  then to pop directories
I enter "pp", and my prompt changes to reflect where I am and how
many directories deep...  If I had set a label, I could say something
like "goto foo" (note, no colon), and things will pretty much run
themselves until all of the directories are popped.  I take advantage
of the fact that it is an error to not have a directory to pop
to; that ends the loop.

	Hope this helps you and others that work with projects that
have many directories/levels.

				dan
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