Hey guys,

I am trying to do a bourne script to look for c files in the current directory. I had it working where it finds the files and asks you to delete them or not, which works, but if there i no files, then it comes up with errors, which iam trying to get rid of. So I thought I would do a if else statement but failing miserably. The if statement is the problem and I want the filename in *.c to check if there is less than 1 but yeah. Any tips or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Code below:

#!/bin/sh
#Simple script to look for c programs.

date=$(date)
echo "Todays date is: $date"
echo "This program will help delete all files ending with the .c extension"
echo "Listing all files and the first 10 lines in each file now"
for filename in *.c ;

if [ filename in *.c -r] then

echo "no files found"


else

do

echo "=================================================================================================== ==============="
echo "Variable filename is set to $filename..."
ls -l $filename
head -10 $filename
done
echo "Would you like to delete these files?"

read YN
case $YN in
[yY]*) echo "Files deleted"
rm *.c
;;

[nN]*) echo "No files deleted."
echo "Thanks for using this shellscript."
;;

esac
fi

what you can do here store the number of c files in a variable like this

no_of_files=`find . -name "*.c" -print | wc -l`
echo $no_of_files

do your manipulations in if condition with this.
if $no_of_files -lt 0
then
------
else
------------
fi

Thanks
Namish

Hi thanks for the tips, it seems to have worked but now I just installed it as is and it does not get part the do part.

Todays date is: Thu Sep 6 18:15:04 EST 2007
This program will help delete all files ending with the .c extension
Listing all files and the first 10 lines in each file now
0
delC.sh: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
delC.sh: line 19: `do'


Code below:

#!/bin/sh
#Simple script to look for c programs.

date=$(date)
echo "Todays date is: $date"
echo "This program will help delete all files ending with the .c extension"
echo "Listing all files and the first 10 lines in each file now"
#for filename in *.c ;
no_of_files=`find . -name "*.c" -print | wc -l`
echo $no_of_files

if $no_of_files -lt 0
then

echo "no files found"

else

do

echo "=================================================================================================== ==============="
echo "Variable filename is set to $filename..."
ls -l $filename
head -10 $filename
done
echo "Would you like to delete these files?"

read YN
case $YN in
[yY]*) echo "Files deleted"
rm *.c
;;

[nN]*) echo "No files deleted."
echo "Thanks for using this shellscript."
;;

esac
fi

Any ideas?