Re: scripting help

[6xtippet@icubed.com (Lee Brinton)]

On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 08:11:36PM -0700, 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
> -----
> 
Try this:
MAX=10
ITER=0

BYTES=`wc --bytes filename | awk -- '{print $1}'`
while test $BYTES -lt 95 -a $ITER -lt $MAX
do
	sleep 5s
	let ITER=ITER+1
	BYTES=`wc --bytes filename | awk -- {print $1}'`
done

cat filename
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