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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Error with the following script Post 302376421 by methyl on Tuesday 1st of December 2009 10:35:16 AM
Old 12-01-2009
The script deletes temp.txt after creating and reading back reading the file.

Quote:
files=`cat "$temp"` #read the temp file
rm "$temp"
#delete the temp file (making sure its size wont be read)
This causes temp.txt to be not present the next time the script is run and then this "rm" line will fail:

Quote:
if [ -d "$1" ]; then
rm "$temp" #Delete any previous temp file
Actually the "Delete any previous temp file" line is not needed.
Consider replacing ">>" with ">" in the "find" line such that it creates the file if it does not exist or overwrites the file if it does exist.

Code:
find "./$1" -maxdepth 1 -type f > "$temp"

Last edited by methyl; 12-01-2009 at 11:36 AM.. Reason: typo
 

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