UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Good afternoon everyone,

I am very new to UNIX shell scripting and I am trying to understand the following code. I know what it does but I need to modify it so it will allow me to pass a file name as *FILENAME*

Thank for any guidance offered.

Code:

if [[ "$type" == file ]] ; then
   match=`expr "$file" : ${sourcefile}'.*'`
   if [[ $match != 0 ]] ; then
      tmp=`expr "$file" : '\(.*\)\..*'`
      if [[ ! -z "$tmp" ]] ; then
         tmp=`expr "$tmp" : '.*'`
         if [[ "$tmp" -ge $minFileName ]] ; then
            fileCount=$fileCount+1
            fileList="$fileList $file"
         else
            logInfo Skip $file Name to Short
         fi
      fi
   fi
fi

That code snippet checks if the variable type holds the string "file", if so it checks if the variable file starts with the string contained in the variable sourcefile, if so it strips what windows/DOS calls the "extension" including the dot, and then checks the length of the result; if greater or equal a defined minimum, trying (but failing) to increment the variable filecount and add the contents of the variable file to the variable filelist; if less than it logs this info somewhere.
Without way more context it's impossible to answer your question.
The connection between the variables type and file is not known, nor do I see where your *FILENAME* comes into play and what you want to achieve with it...

Thank very much for your explanation RudiC,

Here is a bit more of explanation of what I am trying to do. Currently when the script is executed a file name parameter (LTRPRT*) is passed and as you mentioned, checks and makes sure the files exists and are at least the minimum length. Then it takes both of the bellow shown files and FTP them to a specified server. However, I am in need of only checking and sending one of the files. I have tried passing as a parameter
(*CIR-RISKYREM*) or (LTRPRT*CIR-REISKYREM.LTR) and both files keeps getting send over. So I figured the code I placed was the culprit and needed to be modified.

Thanks again and enjoy your day...

Code:

LTRPRT__00000001960000000001CIR-COMITMNT.LTR
LTRPRT__00000005110000000001CIR-RISKYREM.LTR

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Sorry RucyC, I meant to say that when I tried to pass such parameter values, none of the files gets send over and gives me and exception error handling message saying there are no files to send.