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Old 06-16-2017
You could also replace code like this:-
Code:
for file in *
do
   if [ "$file" = "File_A" ]
   then
      echo "Found A" >> logfile.txt
   fi
   if [ "$file" = "File_B" ]
   then
      echo "Found B" >> logfile.txt
   fi
   if [ "$file" = "File_C" ]
   then
      echo "Found C" >> logfile.txt
   fi
done

.... with something like this:-
Code:
for file in *
do
   if [ "$file" = "File_A" ]
   then
      echo "Found A"
   fi
   if [ "$file" = "File_B" ]
   then
      echo "Found B"
   fi
   if [ "$file" = "File_C" ]
   then
      echo "Found C"
   fi
done > logfile.txt 2> logfiles.err

It's terrible dummy code, I know, but it has one output redirection and all STDOUT from the loop goes to it.

Does that give you something to work with to smarten your code?



Robin
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