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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers detect file size then quit or continue Post 302279289 by steven99 on Thursday 22nd of January 2009 10:40:27 AM
Old 01-22-2009
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Hi, thanks for the reply, I've just had time to plug it in and try it. I'm getting a syntax error as follows:

syntax error: `if' unmatched

I looked this up in google and ended up back here on another thread, smirk. I read through that and I seem to have filled the requirements for an if statement, 2 square brackets, white space on either end...command below...this is what I'm running now:

#!usr/local/bin/ksh
fsize=$(ls -lad "mydata.csv" | awk '{print $5}')
if [ ${fsize} -eq 183 ]
then
echo "do nothing"
exit
fi
echo "do something"

I dumbed it down to see if the first line worked, and it does:

#!usr/local/bin/ksh
fsize=$(ls -lad "mydata_godstone.csv" | awk '{print $5}')
print $fsize
fi

I'm not sure what's wrong now, I have an if and a then. thanks in advance. Steven
 

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