Re: how to check 400 files exist

[Wawrzek Niewodniczanski <wawrzek.niewodniczanski@citrix.com>]

On 01/19/12 12:17, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski 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:

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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?

OK I found the limit (For more information look i.e. [1]). On my system is:

#>getconf ARG_MAX
2097152                                                          

So theoretical your comment is right, but I doubt that max argument limit is the reason of problem in this case.

Thanks,
Wawrzek

[1] http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/

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