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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For loop statement - catch error Post 302136732 by lumdev on Wednesday 19th of September 2007 10:18:54 AM
Old 09-19-2007
For loop statement - catch error

I'm having a question about for loops. (bash)

I have the following for example:

for file in `ls *.txt`
do
read file ...
done

Now when there is a file present there is no problem, now when there is no file present I get the following output in my standard mail box : "No such file or directory" Script is executed via crontab.

Now I want to catch the above error so I don't get it in my mail any more, but I have no idea how to do this.

I can make an if statement first "if [ -f *.txt ] ...", but there must be a better solution.

Thx.
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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