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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with setting a variable! Post 302213850 by joeyg on Friday 11th of July 2008 06:51:54 AM
Old 07-11-2008
Not sure of two of your variables
I see where you try to set COUNT . (I don't think it will do what you think it will in this manner.) However you then do an if on $abc.dat and another on $def.dat -- but I do not see where these are set. Perhaps this is your issue since an undefined variable will be less than 4 when doing an "if" condition.

I think you want something more like
COUNTabc=$(cat ../data/abc.dat* | wc -l)
COUNTdef=$(cat ../data/def.dat* | wc -l)
[Each of the above will set a variable with the count for number of lines.]

and then do your "if" conditions with $COUNTabc and $COUNTdef
 

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NAME

       arp2ethers - convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format

SYNOPSIS

       arp2ethers

DESCRIPTION

       arp2ethers converts file arp.dat in the current directory into ethers(5) format on stdout.  Usually arp.dat is an ethernet/ip database file
       generated by arpwatch(8).  The arpwatch daemon in Debian will create different arp.dat depending on its configuration. All of them will	be
       available at /var/lib/arpwatch/.

FILES

       /var/lib/arpwatch - default directory for arp.dat
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SEE ALSO

       arpwatch(8), ethers(5), rarp(8), arp(8),

BUGS

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AUTHORS

       Original  version  by  Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group, University of California, Berkeley,
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