12-24-2008
Check if file exists, create new file?
Hi everyone, I'm brand new to shell scripts (and UNIX in general) and I've been able to figure everything out except this...
I want to write a script that will take a filename as an argument, append the date to it (IE Dec 24 2008) and make sure it doesn't already exist, if so, add an integer to the filename. So for example:
file0_Dec_24_2008
file1_Dec_24_2008 etc
This is what I have so far, but it keeps going into an endless loop I think because the script never finishes =\
#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
X=$2
set $(date)
if [ ! -e "$FILE""$X"_$2_$3_$6 ]
then
touch "$FILE""$X"_$2_$3_$6
else
X=(( $X + 1 ))
bash filename1 $FILE $X
fi
so theoretically it should check to see if the file exists, and if not, create it. If it does, then it would recursively run the script again with the X increased by one. What am I missing??
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