Question

I have this script, that does several operations on some files, which then creates an output file in the end called flashable.zip.
I’d like to implement that when the user runs the script, it begins with asking for a filename to output in the end. The filename is predefined to looking like this: 1.22.33_DA.zip, where the user gets to choose the 1.22.33 part – It’s like version naming the file.. And it has to be strict, so the user don’t use letters in the 1.22.33 part..

I’m sure I can use something like grep for this, but I’m completely lost in how to do it 🙁
And I’m fairly new to bash scripting, so I’m still learning, the script I got might look pretty messy and can probably be cleaned up a bit 🙂

I’m thinking it would just be something that renames the created zipfile when the operations are done, but I’m not sure though..

Here’s my script:

#!/bin/bash


echo ""
echo "[--- Creating flashable zip ---]"
echo ""

tlock=/home/dan/buildtool/flashable/template/system/media/theme/default
dst=/home/dan/buildtool/flashable/system/media/theme/default
src=/home/dan/buildtool/translations/ma-xml-4.0-danish/extras/lockscreen
parent=/home/dan/buildtool/flashable
src2=/home/dan/buildtool/apk_out
home=/home/dan/buildtool

cd $parent
mkdir system
cd system
mkdir app
mkdir framework
mkdir media
cd media
mkdir theme
mkdir audio
cd theme
mkdir default
cd $parent/system/media/audio
mkdir ringtones
mkdir alarms
mkdir notifications
cd $home


for apk in $(<$home/translation_list.txt); do cp -r -f "$src2/$apk" $parent/system/app; done

mv -f $parent/system/app/framework-miui-res.apk $parent/system/framework
cp -f $parent/template.zip $parent/flashable.zip
cp -f -r $parent/template/system/media/audio $parent/system/media

7za u -tzip $tlock/lockscreen.zip $src/advance
cp -f $tlock/lockscreen.zip $tlock/lockscreen
cp -f $tlock/lockscreen $dst
7za a -tzip $parent/flashable.zip $parent/system -mx3

rm -r $parent/system
cd /home/dan/buildtool

Answer 1

This will read in user input and validate the version via regex.

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter version and press [ENTER]: "
read ver
[[ "$ver" =~ ^[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}$ ]] && echo "${ver}_DA.zip" || echo "Invalid"

Output

Enter version and press [ENTER]: 111.222.333
111.222.333_DA.zip

Enter version and press [ENTER]: 1.2222.33
Invalid

Enter version and press [ENTER]: 1.222.3333
Invalid

Explanation

• read ver Reads in user input into the ver variable.

• ^[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}$

  1) ^ Start of string

  2) [0-9] Any digit between 0 and 9

  3) {1,3} Match at least 1 up to 3 characters

  4) \. Match a dot

  5) \.[0-9]{1,3} Repeat pattern twice

  7) $ Match end of string