Detailed introduction to basic learning of Linux shell scripts (8)

#!/bin/sh
# vim: set sw=4 ts=4 et:
ver="0.1"
help()
{
cat <
rotatefile -- rotate the file name
USAGE: rotatefile [-h] filename
OPTIONS: -h help text
EXAMPLE: rotatefile out
This will e.g rename out.2 to out.3, out.1 to out.2, out to out.1
and create an empty out-file
The max number is 10
version $ver
HELP
exit 0
}
error()
{
echo "$1"
exit 1
}
while [ -n "$1" ]; do
case $1 in
-h) help;shift 1;;
--) break;;
-*) echo "error: no such option $1. -h for help";exit 1;;
*) break;;
esac
done
# input check:
if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
error "ERROR: you must specify a file, use -h for help"
fi
filen="$1"
# rename any .1 , .2 etc file:
for n in 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; do
if [ -f "$filen.$n" ]; then
p=`expr $n + 1`
echo "mv $filen.$n $filen.$p"
mv $filen.$n $filen.$p
fi
done
# rename the original file:
if [ -f "$filen" ]; then
echo "mv $filen $filen.1"
mv $filen $filen.1
fi
echo touch $filen
touch $filen

sh -x strangescript

sh -n your_script