Hello !

20 Jan 05 18:09, Russell Tiedt wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT>>> Looking for a way to generate a files.bbs file for a directory of
 RT>>> files.
 RT>>> This will greatly facilitate me adding about 1500 files to my
 RT>>> file base.

 RT>> I use a text editor.  :-)

 RT> So do I on occasion, shall I send you 15 CD's worth of files to make
 RT> files.bbs files for.  I don't have the time for that
route, let me
 RT> know if you have enough spare time. 

I missed the original post, but it shouldn't be too difficult.
Just recusively get all the names of all the files under a given directory
and add them to a file, and that's it.
something like
for file in `ls` do
 echo $file >> files.bbs
done

You probably can do better than that and import the description file as well:

for file in `ls` do
  echo $file >> files.bbs
  if grep zip $file ; then
   mkdir /tmp/$file
   unzip $file /tmp/$file
    if -f [ /tmp/$file/descript.ion ] ; then
      echo /tmp/$file/descript.ion >> files.bbs
      else echo "No description found" >> files.bbs
    fi
   rm -fd /tmp/$file
  fi
done

Sorry, I don't have the BBS at home and can't test it or even remember what
the usual names of the description files are these days, but you get the
gist.


 Francois Thunus

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