UNIX/POSIX programming

Friday, November 28, 2008 » programming, uni

Oh, what have I found?! This was my very first program during the university from two thousand five. We had to make an unix program that converts the table made with MS Excel to stick format and another one that converts back.

List to stick format

Shell programming, UNIX/POSIX. Up to bash!

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case $# in
	0) cat >/tmp/temp.txt;
      p="/tmp/temp.txt";;
	1) if [ "$1" = "-help" ]
	      then echo "--------------------------------------------------
The program converts the table created in MS Excel
to stick format. Usage: command_file file
--------------------------------------------------"
		       exit 0
	   fi
	   if cd "$1" 2>/dev/null  
	      then 
		     echo "This is a directory!" >&2
			 exit 1
	   fi	   
	   if cat "$1" 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
	      then 1>/dev/null
		       p="$1";
		  else
		    echo "File does not exist!" >&2
			exit 1
	   fi;; 
    *) echo Too many parameters! >&2; exit 1;;
esac

l=0
length=`cat "$p" | head -n 1 | tr -d " " | expand | tr -s " " | wc -w`;
for ((i=1;i<=length;i++))
   do
    a[i]=`cat "$p" | head -n 1 | cut -f$i`;
done

count=`cat "$p" | tail -n +2 | cut -f1 | wc -l`;
cat "$p" | tail -n +2 |
while read
 do 
    let l=l+1;
    for ((j=1;j<=length;j++))
	  do
        b=`echo "$REPLY" | cut -f$j`;
	    echo -n ${a[j]}": "$b
		echo
	done
	if [ $l = $count ]
	 then echo -n
	 else echo
	fi
done
# -------------------------------- not worked with trap
if [ -r temp.txt ]
   then rm /tmp/temp.txt
        exit 0
	else exit 0
fi
#----------------------------------

Converting stick format to MS Excel table.

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case $# in
	0) cat >/tmp/temp.txt;
       p="/tmp/temp.txt";;
	1) if [ "$1" = "-help" ]
	      then echo "--------------------------------------------------
It converts the stick format to table format.
Usage: command_file file

--------------------------------------------------"
		       exit 0
	   fi
	   if cd "$1" 2>/dev/null  
	      then 
		     echo "This is directory!" >&2
			 exit 1
	   fi	   
	   if cat "$1" 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
	      then 1>/dev/null
		       p="$1";
		  else
		    echo "File does not exist!" >&2
			exit 1
	   fi;; 
    *) echo Too many paramters! >&2; exit 1;;
esac

len=`cat "$p" | cut -f1 -d ":" | tr "\n" + | sed "s/++/\n/g" | head -n 1 | tr + "\n" | wc -l`
for ((i=1;i<=len;i++))
  do
   a[i]=`cat "$p" | cut -f1 -d ":" | tr "\n" + | sed "s/++/\n/g" | head -n 1 | cut -f$i -d "+"`;
   echo -n ${a[i]}"	";
done
echo
l=0
k=0
check=`cat "$p" | tr "\n" ¤ | sed "s/¤¤/\n/g" | sed "s/¤/\n/g" | sed "s/: /¤/g" | cut -f2 -d "¤" | wc -l` 
cat "$p" | tr "\n" ¤ | sed "s/¤¤/\n/g" | sed "s/¤/\n/g" | sed "s/: /¤/g" | cut -f2 -d "¤" | 
while read
  do
   let l=l+1
   let k=k+1
   b[l]=`echo $REPLY`;
   if [ $l = $len ]
      then 
	       if [ $k = $check ]
		      then echo -n ${b[l]}
	    	  else echo ${b[l]}
	               l=0
		   fi 
      else echo -n ${b[l]}"	"
   fi
done