On 19/01/12 11:29, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:
On 01/19/12 03:04, lina wrote:
[...]
Thanks,
but here it complains so many $ ./check_file.sh
./check_file.sh: line 8: [: too many arguments
Possible problem with spaces. This one works for me:
No, the problem is the number of arguments to the ls call.
There is a limited number of arguments for a process, and
the glob sys_em_*.txt expanded to more than that number.
my_number=400
while :
do
if [ `ls -1 sys_em_*.txt | wc -l` == "$my_number" ]
^ this will suffer the same problem, for some quantity of matches to
sys_em_*.txt.
The best solutions in this thread so far used a naive counting loop
and a counter variable.
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