file_cnt=`ls $in_dir/$file_name | wc -l` not working


 
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Old 10-03-2012
file_cnt=`ls $in_dir/$file_name | wc -l` not working

Hi All,

I have to read in_dir and file_name values from a file and should check the count
For some instance lets say
in_dir hold /int/inbound
file_name hold EMP*.dat
below is one of lines in my shell script and we use AIX
Code:
file_cnt=`ls $in_dir/$file_name | wc -l`

even if some files(EMP001.dat, EMP002.dat) exist with that name, it is not giving expected result if, is it because the values i read from file are considered as common text.
Please let us know how to handle this, i need to count all the files with EMP<any>.dat

I tried this
Code:
if [ -s $in_dir$dir/$file_name ]; then

it give no such file
# 2  
Old 10-03-2012
Pls. post contents of variables in_dir and file_name as well as the result of ls $in_dir/$file_name
# 3  
Old 10-03-2012
That method is prone to failures if a directory accumulates too many files, especially on a system like HP-UX where you may be using an old shell. It would be better to use grep -c, though it takes regexes, not globs. A dumb/simple conversion from glob to regex can be done by replacing . with \. and * with .*, prepending ^ and appending $ to force it to match entire lines, but this may not be perfect.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

while read DIR HOLD GLOB
do
        GLOB="${GLOB/./\\.}" # Replace . with \.
        GLOB="${GLOB/\*/.*}" # Replace * with .*
        GLOB="^${GLOB}\$" # Turn GLOB into ^GLOB$ to match entire line

        if [ ! -e "$DIR" ]
        then
                echo "$DIR does not exist"
        elif [ ! -d "$DIR" ]
        then
                echo "$DIR is not a directory"
                continue
        else
                COUNT="`ls "$DIR" 2>/dev/null | grep -c "$GLOB"`"
                echo "Found $COUNT matching files in directory"
        fi
done < listfile

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