[GRLUG] bash scripting help

[Bob Kline]

Re the "wait" part, it will wait.

Put it in the background, with a &,
and it won't of course.

    -- Bob


On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, <topher at t1kdevelopment.com> wrote:

> This is only kind of bash scripting help.  Mostly I need help referring to
> other programs properly.  Here's what I want to do.
>
> 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,
> wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
>
> That would drop that tarball in the dir in which I'm running the script,
> right?  I'm ok with that.
>
> Since I don't have perms on the other user's account, I'll be running this
> script as root.
>
> So, once the file is in my home dir, I want to unpack it.  man tar tells me
> this should work:
>
> tar xvzf latest.tar.gz -C ~username/public_html
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Then I can set permissions on that new stuff, and remove latest.tar.gz
>
> A couple questions:
>
> Will my script wait until my wget is done before trying to do the next
> thing, or should I pause for a while?
>
> Is -C the best way to unpack it in a remote dir, or is there a better way
> to specify a destination?
>
>
>
> Topher
>
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