10-04-2002
sh is running the while loop in a subshell. Variables changed in the subshell do affect the values in the main shell.
ksh won't do that. Switch to ksh.
And ksh can increment the variable directly:
((test=test+1))
I'm not familiar with MOSX, but you have an odd version of sh if that script really runs.
You will probably need to switch the == to just = (or -eq) in your if statement. And I'm not sure why you're checking the exit code from the echo statement anyway. Are you actually finding filenames that your echo command cannot output?
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