Michael Sullivan wrote: > I wrote a script a long time ago for resizing pictures uploaded to a > certain directory on my server box. The script was supposed to check to > see if any JPG files in the directory had not been resized, and if they > hadn't, it was supposed to resize them. It did some other stuff, but > that was the important thing. It worked fine until the recent bash > upgrade and now it gives me an error. Here is the script: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat system/resizepics > #!/bin/bash > OLD_DIR=$PWD > cd /home/michael/unfiledPics > > if [ ! -d current ]; then > mkdir -p current/mini > fi > > if [ ! `ls -l | wc -l` -le 2 ]; then > for x in *.JPG; do > if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then > convert "$x" -thumbnail 200x200 -verbose current/mini/mini-"$x" > convert "$x" -thumbnail 640x480 -verbose current/"$x"; > fi > done > fi > > > if [ `ls -l | wc -l` -ge 12 ]; then > today=`date '+%m%d%y'` > mv current $today > mv $today /home/michael/webspace/html/camera > mkdir -p /home/michael/unfiledPics/current/mini > rm /home/michael/unfiledPics/*.JPG > fi > > cd $OLD_DIR > > As I said, before the bash upgrade this worked perfectly. Now, when I > try to run it, I get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ system/resizepics > system/resizepics: line 11: [: too many arguments > system/resizepics: line 11: [: too many arguments > > > The error is printed twice because there are two .JPG being checked, but > I'm not sure why the error is occurring in the first place. Line 11 > says: > > if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then > > This used to mean "if a file named "current/<whatever $x is>" does not > exist, then execute the following block", but it keeps tripping on this > line. Was the -e switch deprecated or something? What should it be? > If it matters, my /bin/bash version is > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ bash --version > GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i586-pc-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Please help!
I'm not sure myself, but a better place to ask might be freenode's #bash ;) Good luck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
