On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 08:11:36PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote:
>
> My script doesn't quite work. Could someone tell me what I've done wrong?
>
> The problem is that it displays the file as soon as it has a nonzero
> length. I would like the script to wait until the file is 95 bytes long.
>
> My script:
>
> -----
> until test -s filename
> do
> sleep 5s
> done
>
> cat filename
> -----
>
Try this:
MAX=10
ITER=0
BYTES=`wc --bytes filename | awk -- '{print $1}'`
while test $BYTES -lt 95 -a $ITER -lt $MAX
do
sleep 5s
let ITER=ITER+1
BYTES=`wc --bytes filename | awk -- {print $1}'`
done
cat filename
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