Re: how to check 400 files exist

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
<wawrzek.niewodniczanski@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
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