Add catmerge.sh, a shellscript for easily merging an existing but outdated

catalog with a newer one in another language. I was not sure where to put it,
is this the right place ?


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@43059 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

3rdparty/pulkomandy/catmerge.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ $# -eq 2 ]
+  then
+	OLD=$1
+	NEW=$2
+
+	# We need a tab character as a field separator
+	TAB=`echo -e "\t"`
+
+	#Temporary storage
+	TEMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/catmerge.XXXXX`
+
+	# Extract the list of keys to remove
+	# Compare (diff) the keys only (cut) ; keep only 'removed' lines (grep -),
+	# Ignore diff header and headlines from both files (tail), remove diff's
+	# prepended stuff (cut)
+	# Put the result in our tempfile.
+	diff -u <(cut -f 1,2 $OLD) <(cut -f 1,2 $NEW) |grep ^-|\
+		tail -n +3|cut -b2- > $TEMPFILE
+
+	# Reuse the headline from the new file (including fingerprint). This gets
+	# the language wrong, but it isn't actually used anywhere
+	head -1 $NEW
+	# Sort-merge old and new, inserting lines from NEW into OLD (sort);
+	#	Exclude the headline from that (tail -n +2)
+	# Then, filter out the removed strings (fgrep)
+	sort -u -t"$TAB" -k 1,2 <(tail -n +2 $OLD) <(tail -n +2 $NEW)|\
+		fgrep -v -f $TEMPFILE
+
+	rm $TEMPFILE
+
+  else
+	echo "$0 OLD NEW"
+	echo "merges OLD and NEW catalogs, such that all the keys in NEW that are"
+	echo "not yet in OLD are added to it, and the one in OLD but not in NEW are"
+	echo "removed. The fingerprint is also updated."
+fi