12-31-2007
Supress error message
Hi All
this is a simple script
#! /bin/bash
FileCnt=`ls -lrt $DIR/* | wc -l`
echo $FileCnt
how could i escape the error msg if there are no files in $DIR
ls: /home/sayantan/test/files/cnt/*: No such file or directory
0
Looking forward for a quick reply
Regards, Newbie
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