-=> Janis Kracht wrote to Sean Rima <=-   
      
    JK> Hi Sean,   
      
    > Does anyone have a script that updates the magic file names for the current   
    > nodelist and other similar files   
      
    JK> I do, but for linux..I think Jame's idea of doing it in bz would be a   
    JK> better solution since it could be used across all OS's though.   
      
    JK> This is the relative part of my script.. it replaces the diff line   
    JK> (nodediff.a??)   
      
    JK> ==   
    JK> # update magic.lst   
    JK> # get julian date for this week   
    JK> num=`date +%j --date=Friday`   
    JK> pick=`expr substr $num 2 3`   
    JK> # pick is last two digits of day number   
    JK> lastwk=$(($num -7))   
    JK> # lastweek's node number   
    JK> lpick=`expr substr $lastwk 2 3`   
    JK> # lpick is the last two digits of last week's daynumber   
    JK> cat /home/bbbs/magic.lst |sed "s/a$lpick/a$pick/g" > newmagic cp   
    JK> newmagic /home/bbbs/magic.lst   
    JK> ===   
      
    JK> Hope this gets you to decent start - I know sed exists for Windows, but   
    JK> I'm not familiar really with the Windows date command :(  date +%j is   
    JK> what gives you the julian date under linux.   
      
      
   Thanks for that, I will start work when off work next, think this will play   
   some part of it :)   
      
   Sean   
      
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