one key hash

[C. Abney]

~sdpm~
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Bob Forgey wrote:

> ... I would probably use
>         keys(%foo_h)[0]
> instead of the `each %foo_h', just to be explicit.

I tried that and couldn't get it to work.  Made sense to me too, otherwise.
It's a bit wordier than mine, but tells you exactly what you want to do.
I even tried it with a symref... :(

> I presume you're using `tar tvf ...', which is the reason for the map
> function, instead of a chomp?

Yes, and that it'll also work with (for example) long file listings, or
ftp->ls(), or...

my root dir test was really messed up, though.  Here's a mod on the 
script (and in usable form!)

============================================================
#! /usr/bin/perl
# Takes output from a tarball manifest listing and checks that only one
# toplevel directory/file exists.
# just do a 'tar tvfz bar.tar.gz | onekeyhash.pl'

@flist = map +(split)[-1], <>;

# Danger: tar Pczf bar.tar.gz meme proxy /vmlinuz
# this grabs the topmost directory/file name(s) from the tar manifest
for (@flist) { $foo_h{$1}++ if m|([^/]+)|; $augh++ if m|^/|; };

die "someone's out to get you\n" if ( $augh );

die "more than one topmost directory or file\n" if ( keys (%foo_h) != 1 );

$top = each (%foo_h);

print "topmost directory: $top\n";
============================================================

Thanks for the tips...

CA
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