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ConvertFilesIntoArchive

Script to creates archive with lyx file and all included files (graphics and so on).

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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:01:01 +0200
From: Marcin Bukat <wodz@netlandia.pl>
Newsgroups: gmane.editors.lyx.general
Subject: archive with all included files in document

Hello!
There was a request of such functionality. I did a smal bash script 
which can do that 'cause I found it usefull.
If someone interested please test.

Regards
wo
  

The script: lyx_pak.sh

 

#!/bin/sh
# This script creates archive with lyx file and all included files (graphics 
# and so on). It can make plain tar archive or compress it with bz2 or gz
#
# Author: Marcin Bukat
# email : wodz@netlandia.pl
# Ths script is a FREE software
# Use at Your own risk

function usage
#Prints usage instructions
{
        echo "Usage: lyx_pak.sh [OPTONS] [FULL PATH TO LYX FILE]"
        echo " OPTIONS:"
        echo "-j        compress with bzip2"
        echo "-z        compress with gzip"
        exit
}

function archive
#Creates archive
{
ARCHNAME=`basename $LYXFILENAME lyx`tar
       case "$1" in
        -j)
        COMPRESS="bzip2 $ARCHNAME"
        ;;
        -z)
        COMPRESS="gzip $ARCHNAME"
        ;;
        *)
        COMPRESS=""
        esac

cd $WORKDIR

tar cvf $ARCHNAME $LYXFILENAME `cat $LYXFILENAME|grep filename|cut -d " " -f 2` "`cat $LYXFILENAME|grep BibTeX|cut -d { -f2|tr -d '}'`.bib"
$COMPRESS

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Lyx archive created successfully"
else
        exit 1
fi
}
#Main part starts here

#Check if there is any parameter
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
        #Ok we got two parameters so first is a commpress switch
        if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
                if [ "$1" = "-j" ] || [ "$1" = "-z" ]; then
                        PARAM=$1
                        LYXFILENAME=`basename $2`
                        WORKDIR=`dirname $2`
                        if [ -f $2 ] && [ -d `dirname $2` ]; then
                        #parameters are correct so make archive
                        archive $PARAM
                        else
                        usage
                        fi
                else
                usage
                fi
        else
                #One parameter - only path to the file
                PARAM="-"
                LYXFILENAME=`basename $1`
                WORKDIR=`dirname $1`
                if [ -f "$1" ] && [ -d "`dirname $1`" ]; then
                #parameters are correct so make archive
                archive $PARAM
                else
                usage
                fi
        fi
else
usage
fi

  

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