Re: how to check 400 files exist

[Balint Szigeti <balint.szgt@gmail.com>]

On 19/01/2012 03:04, lina wrote:
> 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
> > --
> > 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
what type of your filesystem? I met this fault when I had up to 10 000 
file on ext3.
I had to change my filesystem to XFS.

Regards
Balint