DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: "Add to filetool.lst" button
I just wanted to let everyone know that mikshaw's little emelfm button script works very well. It is at the top of my button list right under mydsl. This is a little gem to have around.
Chris
bookmarkAgreed, tnx mikshaw....
and I understood the word fubar to mean .. ( Fscked Up Beyond All Repair )
73 ke4ntAccepted and will be in the next release. This should help make it easier to explain to new users what to add to their filetool.lst depending on their needs.Malfunction! *zzztrrrrgtz!*
There's a potential problem with that command. Suppose 'pwd' returns '/ramdisk/home/dsl'. The line(s) added will begin with 'ramdisk/'. This isn't a problem with a vanilla liveCD or Frugal, but suppose you switch to using a persitent home with no symlink to it in /ramdisk. Those files you previously backed up will have nowhere to go.
To fix this i've changed the cut command to sed: pwd|sed 's/^\/ramdisk//;s/^\///'
Cut removed only the leading slash, but this one will remove the slash, plus a leading '/ramdisk' if it exists.Hey guys, how about something like this???
Code Sample
for i in %f; do a=~/filetool.lst && echo "Adding $i to backup list .." && echo %d/$i |sed 's/^\/\(ramdisk\/\)*//'| join -a 1 -a 2 - $a >/tmp/t && mv /tmp/t $a; done && echo "Done."|| echo "Error"
Even with the console messages and temp file, it ran a little faster (using time) for me than Mik's script on embedded.
`join` used like this is something like `cat - $a|sort|uniq`, except that (again) it seems to run slightly faster here (every bit of speed helps with embedded!).
