On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski <wawrzek.niewodniczan...@citrix.com> wrote: > On 01/18/12 16:34, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks ahead for reading this email. > > I am choked by how to check more than 400 files exist or not, if not, > sleep, but once it's all generated, continue do something. > > for i in $(seq 5); do if [ -e sys_em_$i.txt ] ; then echo done ; fi ; > done not work. > > those files have a common feature: > > sys_em_$i.txt > > What about using `ls -1 sys_em_*.txt | wc -l` to check the number of > files. > > I.e. (I hope it works): > > my_number = 400 > while : > do > if [ ` ls -1 sys_em_*.txt | wc -l` == "$my_number" ] then Thanks, but here it complains so many $ ./check_file.sh ./check_file.sh: line 8: [: too many arguments
> break > sleep 5 > fi > done > > Thanks, > Wawrzek > -- > Wawrzyniec (Wawrzek) Niewodniczański - (niewod @ LinkedIn) > System Administrator - Engineering Services Team (XenServer) > Citrix Systems, Building 101, Cambridge Science Park, CB4 0FY, Cambridge > PhD in Quantum Chemistry, MSc in Molecular EngineeringM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJmmooL1FAqac6RRGSJE74bW0Uv2Nbp79D=gz6j6eljp...@mail.gmail.com
