Re the "wait" part, it will wait.<div><br></div><div>Put it in the background, with a &, </div><div>and it won't of course.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:topher@t1kdevelopment.com">topher@t1kdevelopment.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">This is only kind of bash scripting help. Mostly I need help referring to other programs properly. Here's what I want to do.<br>
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There's a new user on my machine, and I want to get a new wordpress package and unpack it in their dir. Getting it is easy,<br>
wget <a href="http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz</a><br>
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That would drop that tarball in the dir in which I'm running the script, right? I'm ok with that.<br>
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Since I don't have perms on the other user's account, I'll be running this script as root.<br>
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So, once the file is in my home dir, I want to unpack it. man tar tells me this should work:<br>
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tar xvzf latest.tar.gz -C ~username/public_html<br>
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Does that make sense?<br>
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Then I can set permissions on that new stuff, and remove latest.tar.gz<br>
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A couple questions:<br>
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Will my script wait until my wget is done before trying to do the next thing, or should I pause for a while?<br>
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Is -C the best way to unpack it in a remote dir, or is there a better way to specify a destination?<br>
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<br>
Topher<br>
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