On 07-Aug-98 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
This may not be the neatest way to do it but it is straightforward and it
should work (by the way, "[ expr ]" means the same as "test expr"):
until [ $( cat filename | wc -c ) -ge 95 ]
do
sleep 5s
done
cat filename
Hope this helps (and hope it works!)
Ted.
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