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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with Script that writes max lines of a file - Any ideas how to fix? Post 302279698 by JerryHone on Friday 23rd of January 2009 02:38:46 PM
Old 01-23-2009
You're setting $NUMBER equal to the first argument and then later in the script checking that the first argument is numerically zero. Is this intended? And if you are using an argument of 0, then that has to be a filename in the directory for the "linetest1=`wc -l < $NUMBER`" to work.
Change line 1 to
Code:
#!/bin/ksh -x

so you can see what each line is evaluated to before it's executed.

Jerry
 

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test::data::array

Array(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						Array(3pm)

NAME

       Test::Data::Array -- test functions for array variables

SYNOPSIS

       use Test::Data qw(Array);

DESCRIPTION

   Functions
       array_any_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if any element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_none_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if no element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_once_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if only one element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_multiple_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if more than one element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_max_ok( NUMBER, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are numerically less than or equal to NUMBER.

       array_min_ok( NUMBER, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are numerically greater than or equal to NUMBER.

       array_maxstr_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are asciibetically less than or equal to MAX.

       array_minstr_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are asciibetically greater than or equal to MAX.

       array_sum_ok( SUM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if the numerical sum of ARRAY is SUM.

       array_empty_ok( ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if the array contains no elements.

       array_length_ok( ARRAY, LENGTH [, NAME] )
	   Ok if the array contains LENGTH number of elements.

       array_sortedstr_ascending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is asciibetically greater than or equal to the one before.

       array_sortedstr_descending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is asciibetically less than or equal to the one before.

       array_sorted_ascending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is numerically greater than or equal to the one before.

       array_sorted_descending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is numerically less than or equal to the one before.

SEE ALSO

       Test::Data, Test::Data::Scalar, Test::Data::Function, Test::Data::Hash, Test::Builder

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

       This source is in Github:

	       http://github.com/briandfoy/test-data/tree/master

AUTHOR

       brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2002-2009 brian d foy.  All rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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