setting up a bash script to build progs and a print file

[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

Using Linux I have a bash script to build a lot of app progs but it has an issue, but first the script :

 #1st load the copybook path
export COBCPY=/home/vince/cobolsrc/oe/src/copybook
for i in `ls *.cbl`; do cobc -m $i -Wlinkage -T $i.prn; echo "Compiled " $i; done

This find all files with extension of .cbl and compiles them BUT it also sets up the print file as progname.cbl.prn

How do I change this script to give print files as progname.prn

I did think there was a ls switch that would just give the name without the extension but does not seem to do this, next was, is there a way of using grep, but again no such feature.

It is driving me nuts trying to find what I suspect is a simple fix :(

Any one with a solution say within the for i in `ls etc ?

[Simon Sobisch]

Or, during compile, change the output of a your sub-shell ls, or do that when referencing it (nowadays, prefer $(...) over `...`:

for i in $(ls *.cbl |  cut -d. -f1); do cobc -m $i.cbl -Wlinkage -T $i.prn; echo "Compiled " $i; done

for i in $(ls *.cbl); do cobc -m $i -Wlinkage -T $(echo $i |  cut -d. -f1).prn; echo "Compiled " $i; done

and of course, if you use that more regularly, use a Makefile.
With GC 3.2 you can (again) use -MT to also generate a dependency file, so if one copybook changes make would compile (all and only) the COBOL sources that use that.

[Mickey White]

Try this:

for a in *cbl.prn; do mv $a `echo $a | sed 's/.prn//'`; done

While you are in the directory that has the * . cbl.prn files

[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

That crapped over all *.cbl file over writing o/p from the .prn reports.

I will have to rebuild all of the programs.

On 26/08/2023 20:03, Mickey White wrote:

Try this:

|forain*cbl.prn; do mv $a echo $a | sed 's/.prn//'; done |

setting up a bash script to build progs and a print file
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/help/thread/e6a6879714/?limit=25#a74b

[Mickey White]

Sorry the tic marks are not cut and pasting correctly. Did not see that...
This is one I have on your compile line and it works, but there are TIC marks (the ` to the left of the number 1 key) before the echo and after the last sed single qoute.

for i in ls *.cbl; do cobc -m $i -Wlinkage -T $i.prn; echo "Compiled " $i;mv $i.prn echo $i.prn | sed 's/cbl.prn/prn/'; done

It is still not putting the tic mark there I will send it to you in email...

THIS part should have a tic mark before the e in echo and after the last single qoute. I will put a caret there instaed but change it to tic.
^echo $i.prn | sed 's/cbl.prn/prn/'^