Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:56:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: why is this script failing? Message-ID: <20080714215626.GA28814@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080714210924.GA16869@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080714210924.GA16869@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 04:09:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:12:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > why is this script not finding them?
> >
> >
> > wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
> >
> > if [ -s $wav ]
>
> As others have pointed out because if "/tmp/kde-kline/file1.wav
> /tmp/kde-kline/file2.wav" is found the -s will fail because $wav isn't a
> single file. Or it could be that your escaped wildcards are staying
> escaped.
>
> I use something like this to move files out of a Maildir:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in /tmp/kde-kline/*wav
> do
> # if nothing or nonsense was found then $i won't exist
> if [ -e $i ]
> then
> echo "Found " $i
> /bin/rm $i
> fi
> done
You're right of course, and for the most bothersome hundreds of
wav and log files this works:
log=/tmp/kde-kline/\*log;
wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*;
for f in $wav
do
if [ -e $f ]
then
###echo "Wav files found"; ls -l $f;
/bin/rm ${f};
fi
done
for f in $log
do
if [ -e $f ]
then
###echo "log files found"; ls -l $f;
/bin/rm ${f};
fi
done
But as you point out, the followingisthat much more effective.
or at least lesss typing.
>
> But why do it the hard way?
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/rm /tmp/kde-kline/*wav > /dev/null 2>&1
with this,
>
> /bin/rm /tmp/kde-kline/*log > /dev/null 2>&1
thanks much:-)
gary
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
> ========================================================================
> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
--
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