[ale] Hey, deb-heads!

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Hmm. I've double indices before in bash. What's not running, the second
> for loop or the `ls -1`?

I think the issue is `ls -l` is going to give you more then just the 
file names, which is what I think you want in this case.

Also, the for loop will process each 'field' in the 'ls -l' separately.

> 
> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 23:39, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
>>Jim -
>>
>>Looks like that for j in `ls -1` line isn't gonna fly - I assume you
>>want the shell to evaluate that command but it's not...
>>
>>- Jeff
>>
>>On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 22:57, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>
>>>Use a loopback mount to mount them all someplace like /tmp/cd1,
>>>/tmp/cd2, etc.
>>>
>>>#!/bin/bash
>>>
>>>export ftp=<path to ftp>
>>>for i in 1 2 3
>>>do
>>>cd /tmp/cd$i
>>>for j in `ls -1`
>>>do
>>>ln -s /tmp/cd$i/$j $ftp/$j
>>>done
>>>done
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 22:43, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've downloaded the three Debian Potato CD ISOs to my file server and
>>>>I'm going to try to do an install using the contents of those ISOs as
>>>>the source via FTP.  
>>>>
>>>>My question is, how do I combine the contents of the CDs in my FTP
>>>>filespace so as to make the whole schmeer resemble the Debian mirrors on
>>>>the Internet?  I'm used to doing this in Red-Hat-land but the layout
>>>>here is quite different.
>>>>
>>>>- Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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