[Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing and regexps samples wanted

[Andrea Landaker]

> I want anything and everything, what I like best are useful snippets that
> actually do something. For example, Telsa posted this on one of the lists:

Well, I often have tons of zip files to deal with (like for getting resources 
out of windows themes and dance steps for pyDance and modules for 
NeverwinterNights and things like that), and they're not always formatted the 
same way.  Most of the time, I just want each zip file unzipped into its own 
directory called the same thing as the zip file.  So I do:

ls -Q *.zip | xargs -n 1 unzip-createdir

here's unzip-createdir:

#!/bin/bash
dirname="`echo $1 | sed -e 's/\.zip//'`"
mkdir "$dirname"
unzip -j "$1" -d "$dirname"

The -Q option to ls has it quote the files, so you don't get problems if the 
files have spaces or quotes in them.  It would be nice if find had a similar 
option, but so far I haven't found one.

I guess it's kind of specialized, but I've used it a lot for the things I do.

-- 
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/