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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Test File for Existence with Whitespaces in Path Post 302380925 by sumi76 on Thursday 17th of December 2009 02:22:47 AM
Old 12-17-2009
Thanks for the quick replies!

@gaurav1086: it works in deed, but I thought there must be a way to get it working with "test"
Actually I want to have a list with all the directories containing movies without Hungarian subtitles in them. So I have a list of directories and want to check them.
The problem with find is that it will give me a lot of double records, as there are many files in the directories.

Here's the little script I want to use (it seems working now, I must have been changing something):

Code:
#!/bin/bash
 
find $(pwd)/* -type d | while read dir ; do
[ -f "$dir"/*HUN* ] && echo "found in: $dir" || echo "not found in: $dir"
done



---------- Post updated at 09:22 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:21 AM ----------

@Scrutinizer: thanks for your comment, it explains why it was not working and why the script above seemed to be working but actually giving error messages if found more than 1 file in the dir. Is it possible to fix this with regex? I mean something like this:

Code:
[ -f "$dir"/.*HUN.* ]

with or without quotes, donno...
Last edited by sumi76; 12-17-2009 at 03:49 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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