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#!/bin/sh

# copy image and changes

force=0

if [ "$1" = -f ]; then

force=1

shift

if [ $# != 2 -o "$1" = "-?" -o "$1" = --help ]; then

echo "usage: $0 [-f] image-name-no-ext [image-name-no-ext|dir]"

test $# != 2 && exit 1

exit 0

if [ -f "$2.image" -o -f "$2.changes" ]; then

if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then

echo "$2.image and/or $2.changes already exist." 1>&2

exit 1

elif [ -d "$2" ]; then

if [ -f "$2/`basename "$1"`.image" -o -f "$2/`basename "$1"`.changes" ]; then

if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then

echo "$2/`basename "$1"`.image and/or $2/`basename "$1"`.changes already exist." 1>&2

exit 1

cp "$1.image" "$1.changes" "$d"

exit 0

cp "$1.image" "$2.image"

cp "$1.changes" "$2.changes"

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

�� don't know if this is useful to you or whether you've already written it yourself but I finally caved and wrote a shell command that copies an image/changes file pair, replacing the hundreds of times I've issued the two parallel commands, cpic = copy image and changes. �Happy holidays

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force=0
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�� shift
fi

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�� echo "usage: $0 [-f] image-name-no-ext [image-name-no-ext|dir]"

�� test $# != 2 && exit 1
�� exit 0

fi
if [ -f "$2.image" -o -f "$2.changes" ]; then

�� if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then
�� echo "$2.image and/or $2.changes already exist." 1>&2

�� exit 1
�� fi
elif [ -d "$2" ]; then

�� if [ -f "$2/$1.image" -o -f "$2/$1.changes" ]; then
�� if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then

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�� exit 1

�� fi
�� fi
�� cp "$1.image" "$1.changes" "$d"

�� exit 0
fi
cp "$1.image" "$2.image"

cp "$1.changes" "$2.changes"