chertex.sh now reads and fetches external assets for thesis

chertex.sh

@@ -83,6 +83,35 @@ if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
    	exit 0
    fi
 
+	#### Special treatment for thesis
+	# If $jobname is thesis, fetch some external assets
+   if [[ ${PWD} ==  "/media/bay/taha/chepec/thesis" && $jobname == "thesis" ]]; then
+      echo "<cheRTeX> -------------------------------"
+      echo "<cheRTeX> THESIS: getting external assets"
+      echo "<cheRTeX> -------------------------------"
+		# summary of operations in this if-clause:
+      # trawl the assets/ subdirectories looking for a file "external.assets", if found,
+      # read its contents line-by-line (each line is a path) and copy that file to the current assets/ subdir
+      # note that we only look for assets.external inside the subdirectories, and not in assets/ itself
+      assetsubdirectories="$(find /media/bay/taha/chepec/thesis/assets/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d)"
+      # loop through $assetdirs, and look for the file external.assets in each path
+      for assetdir in $assetsubdirectories; do
+         assetfilename="assets.external"
+         if [ -e ${assetdir}/${assetfilename} ]; then
+            # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10929453/read-a-file-line-by-line-assigning-the-value-to-a-variable
+            # $assets is the current assets.external file
+            assets="${assetdir}/${assetfilename}"
+            while IFS='' read -r asset || [[ -n "$asset" ]]; do
+               echo "$asset"
+               # copy this filepath into the current assets subdirectory
+               cp --preserve=timestamps $asset $assetdir
+            done < "$assets"
+         fi
+      done
+   fi
+   # short delay to enable on-screen reading of previous echo
+	simpledelay.sh 1
+
 
    ## Handle knitr or pgfSweave jobs (each requires separate treatment)
    ## But how should we tell the difference between them?