Re: how to check 400 files exist

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

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
<wawrzek.niewodniczanski@citrix.com> 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:
>
> [...]
>
> 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? I tried it with 8192 files:
>
> #>ls -1 file-* | wc
> -l
> 8192
> #>../test.sh 8192
> sucess
>
> And my script is:
>
>  #>cat ../test.sh
> my_number=$1
> while :
> do
>   if [ `ls -1 file* | wc -l` == "$my_number" ]
>   then
>     echo "sucess"
>
>     break
>   fi
>   echo "test"
>   sleep 5
> done

Thanks. it works well.

>
>
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>
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