Metacat

#!/bin/sh

#This script will send a buildIndex command to

#remote metacat with docid parameter. Then metacat will build index for this docid.

#This script will have one argument - it is a text file name which contains docid list.

#The text file will look like

#nceas.1.1

#nceas.2.1

#nceas.3.1

if  [ $# -ne 1 ]

 then

    echo "USAGE: $0 docidfile"

    exit 1

fi

echo 'Please type metacat url (It should look like "http://pacific.msi.ucsb.edu:8080/knb/metacat")'

read metacatBaseURL

echo 'Please type KNB user name (It should look like "uid=tao,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org")'

read username

echo 'Please type password'

read password

loginurl="$metacatBaseURL?action=login&username=$username&password=$password"

wget -q -O - --save-cookies cookies --keep-session-cookies "$loginurl"

suffix="?action=buildindex"

metacatURL="$metacatBaseURL$suffix"

FILE=$1

# make sure file exist and readable

if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then

  	echo "$FILE : does not exists"

  	exit 1

elif [ ! -r $FILE ]; then

  	echo "$FILE: can not read"

  	exit 2

fi

index=0

length=3

# read $FILE using the file descriptors

exec 3<&0

exec 0<$FILE

while read line

do

    if [ "$line" != "" ]

    then

      # construct metacat with given length of docid

      metacatURL="$metacatURL&docid=$line"

      index=`expr $index + 1`

	    if [ $index -eq $length ]

	    then

	       echo "here is url $metacatURL"

	       wget -q -O - --load-cookies cookies "$metacatURL"

	       index=0;

	       metacatURL="$metacatBaseURL$suffix"

	    fi

	fi

done

#This will send out some remained docid

if [ $index -ne 0 ]

then

    echo "here is url $metacatURL"

    wget -q -O - --load-cookies cookies "$metacatURL"

fi

exec 0<&3