From ce1c8ff35af919fe42a4ec86168773adb3593e65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lissav <lissav@8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:43:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] checking in code for APPEND, still needs testing do not try

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@13110 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd
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 xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/xdcpappend.sh | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/xdcpappend.sh

diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/xdcpappend.sh b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/xdcpappend.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e03c6c93d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/xdcpappend.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# This script is used by the xdcp APPEND: function to perform the
+# append operation on the nodes.
+#First parm is nodesyncfiledir,  then after that are the lines for the
+#APPEND clause  put in the format   
+#appendfile appendfile:orgfile appendfile2:orgfile2.....
+#
+nodesyncfiledir=$1
+nodesyncfiledirorg="$nodesyncfiledir/org"
+nodesyncfiledirappend="$nodesyncfiledir/append"
+skip=0
+for i in $*; do
+  # skip first parm
+  if [ $skip -eq 0 ]; then
+    skip=1
+    continue
+  fi
+  # get the append file location
+  appendfilebase=`echo "$i"|cut -d ':' -f 1`
+  appendfile="$nodesyncfiledirappend$appendfilebase"
+  # get the file to append to
+  orgfile=`echo "$i"|cut -d ':' -f 2`
+  # get the directory to backup the original file to append 
+  orgfiledir=`dirname $orgfile`
+  filebackupdir="$nodesyncfiledirorg$orgfiledir"
+  filebackup="$nodesyncfiledirorg$orgfile"
+  # now do the work
+  mkdir -p $filebackupdir 
+  if [ ! -f "$filebackup" ]; then
+    cp -p $orgfile $filebackup
+  fi
+  cp -p $filebackup $orgfile
+  cat $appendfile >> $orgfile
+
+done
+exit 0