rootninja

What would I do without the Linux shell? The sheer number of mouse clicks required to do this in Windows would result in instant and painful arthritis.

What it does…

For each Makefile in any child directory below pwd, It’s looking for a broken include string where the include was specified after the library and if it finds this case, it rewrites that part so it’s include/library. It’s basically the same thing done over and over for each include that might exist in any Makefile.

This has to be the longest and dumbest string of commands ever used in a terminal.

for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libalpha/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libalpha\/include/\/include\/libalpha/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libbravo/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libbravo\/include/\/include\/libbravo/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libcharlie/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libcharlie\/include/\/include\/libcharlie/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libdelta/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libdelta\/include/\/include\/libdelta/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libecho/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libecho\/include/\/include\/libecho/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libfoxtrot/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libfoxtrot\/include/\/include\/libfoxtrot/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libgolf/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libgolf\/include/\/include\/libgolf/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libhotel/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libhotel\/include/\/include\/libhotel/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libindia/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libindia\/include/\/include\/libindia/’ $x; fi; done; for x in `find . -name Makefile`; do grep -e “-I\$.HOME./libjuliet/include” $x; if [ $? == 0 ]; then sed -i ’s/\/libjuliet\/include/\/include\/libjuliet/’ $x; fi; done;

Just in case you’re wondering, here’s the whole police letter alphabet:

ALPHA, BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, ECHO, FOXTROT, GOLF, HOTEL, INDIA, JULIET, KILO, LIMA, MIKE, NOVEMBER, OSCAR, PAPA, QUEBEC, ROMEO, SIERRA, TANGO, UNIFORM, VICTOR, WHISKY, ZULU

I’m showing the example to show that you don’t need to come up with fancy or efficient means of performing a task. There are much better ways of doing this using awk or sed.

But sometimes you just want to get something done and what you already have works. It’s not always worth your time to refactor and refine. Life is short, just copy and paste over and over to repeat and move on!