Re: Renaming file using wildcard

[Tod Oace]

> I know that there will only be one file that matches the wildcard but 
> I have no way of precomputing the date stamp. Is there any way I can 
> do something like: (below obviously doesn't work)
>
> copy:
>   /etc/snmp/conf/_snmpdx.rsrc.JASS.* dest=/etc/snmp/conf/snmpdx.rsrc

How about:

        shellcommands:
                "mv /etc/snmp/conf_snmpdx.rsrc.JASS.* 
/etc/snmp/conf/snmpdx.rsrc"

Seems like it'd work, and it wouldn't leave the old copy.


It'd be nice though, I think, to be able to translate file names so 
/usr/sbin/sendmail,${os} and /usr/sbin/makemap,${os} could be installed 
in one copy instead of two. I could've done "copy: /usr/sbin/${os} 
dest=/usr/sbin include=sendmail include=makemap server=...". I'm 
copying out of a checkout of CVS repository by the way.

When I was first deciding how to deal with installs of binaries I was 
hoping to find a way to rename files on the fly. I got excited when I 
looked at filters until I realized it was just effectively find(1). 
It's a very cool feature, but it doesn't modify file names like I 
thought it was going to...just the set of files that are going to be 
worked with.

I know it's a big change, but if filter: had some kind of 
"strip=re-suffix" feature, and things using the filter knew how to use 
the old and new versions of the file, that would be very handy wouldn't 
it? Or maybe all I really want is for copy: to have some kind of 
"strip=re-suffix" feature. Or maybe "copy: /usr/sbin/${os}/" isn't a 
bad idea. How are other people doing it?

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Tod Oace, Intel Corporation <tod@intel.com>