{"id":622,"date":"2010-03-17T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=622"},"modified":"2010-03-17T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T13:57:15","slug":"the-simple-scripts-in-life-are-often-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/17\/the-simple-scripts-in-life-are-often-the-best","title":{"rendered":"The simple scripts in life are often the best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Possibly my longest blog post title ever?<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a link to today’s little bit of scripting. I’ve now written this script three or four times, so I figure that means it’s useful and maybe worth keeping around. I’m calling it dir2tree<\/a> and all it does is take a (sorted) list of pathnames and convert it into a tree structure. So, eg:<\/p>\n

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$ dpkg -L samba | grep man.*gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/mksmbpasswd.8.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/eventlogadm.8.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/tdbbackup.8.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/pdbedit.8.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/smbd.8.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/nmbd.8.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/smbstatus.1.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/profiles.1.gz\r\n\/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/smbcontrol.1.gz<\/pre>\n
<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
becomes<\/p>\n
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$ dpkg -L samba | grep man.*gz | sort | dir2tree\r\n\/\r\n\tusr\/\r\n\t\tshare\/\r\n\t\t\tman\/\r\n\t\t\t\tman1\/\r\n\t\t\t\t\tprofiles.1.gz\r\n\t\t\t\t\tsmbcontrol.1.gz\r\n\t\t\t\t\tsmbstatus.1.gz\r\n\t\t\t\tman8\/\r\n\t\t\t\t\teventlogadm.8.gz\r\n\t\t\t\t\tmksmbpasswd.8.gz\r\n\t\t\t\t\tnmbd.8.gz\r\n\t\t\t\t\tpdbedit.8.gz\r\n\t\t\t\t\tsmbd.8.gz\r\n\t\t\t\t\ttdbbackup.8.gz<\/pre>\n
<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So yeah. There you go.<\/p>\n
(A related useful tool is tree<\/a>, which generates a prettier tree and does the directory walking itself. I wanted something that I could use with find, and I couldn’t spot anything that already existed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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