On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski <wawrzek.niewodniczan...@citrix.com> wrote: > On 01/19/12 11:45, Jon Dowland wrote: > > 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. > > > What is the number? I tried it with 8192 files: > > #>ls -1 file-* | wc > -l > 8192 > #>../test.sh 8192 > sucess > > And my script is: > > #>cat ../test.sh > my_number=$1 > while : > do > if [ `ls -1 file* | wc -l` == "$my_number" ] > then > echo "sucess" > > break > fi > echo "test" > sleep 5 > done
Thanks. it works well. > > > -- > 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/CAG9cJmmVPQatA94+-h6-hN-_vm=dirpbcnb4q44s59aysgp...@mail.gmail.com
