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Hi guys,

BBBS software natively implements the automatic and unattended adoption of
files when they arrive through TIC distribution channels. If not, BBBS can
adopt new files (out of TIC processes) in a manual and assisted manner,
through the system's own menus in a local or telnet connection.

However, how do you adopt files collections, serialized files, sets of
independent files by topic, etc?

I've just finished   ook.sh,  a bash script that should respond to this need,
as an interactive support tool for a BBBS SysOp. Rudimentary, but useful.

ook.sh generates and/or maintains description.ion files from the FILE_ID.DIZ
description of ZIP files pointed at it, in a static or recursive location.

You simply put the zip file on your desired location, and  ook.sh  will take
care of it.

ook.sh needs the unzip, grep, file and stat utilities to be available on the
system in order to perform the necessary operations. I've tested it in a bash
shell, so if you use another shell it may need to be adjusted accordingly.
This could apply to Windows WSL environments making it possible to run this
script on a BBBS installation over MS Windows. But I'm not sure as I don't use
Windows.

I use the file command to ensure that a processable archive is indeed a ZIP,
checking if the output of the command contains 'Zip archive data'.

For each ZIP file, the script checks if it is already registered in its
description.ion. If it is, skip its processing. If not, extract3 the contents
of the file_id.diz (case-insensitive) and include it in the description.ion,
on the same line as the name of the ZIP file, replacing line breaks with @n
(encoding that BBBS interprets as a line break).

If the -r parameter is specified, the script recursively processes all
subdirectories. Otherwise, only process the current directory.

If the -s parameter is specified followed by the name of a ZIP archive, only
that archive is processed.

At the end of its execution, the script displays a summary with the total
number of new ZIP files processed and the total size in bytes of these files.

Summarizing:

 Recursive directory mode: ./ook.sh -r
 Specific ZIP mode: ./ook.sh -s archive.zip
 Current directory mode (no recursion): ./ook.sh

Check it out, guys. Maybe it will be useful to someone else besides me.

https://shipyard.thefreebay.net/eotb/bash-description-ook.git

A reveure!!
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