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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting test: argument Post 302456102 by Aswex on Thursday 23rd of September 2010 07:50:50 AM
Old 09-23-2010
test: argument
Hi,

I having trouble with a test numeric value.

Here is my code :

Code:
nb_wanted=$(cat ${type_proto} | grep "#nbr_#branche#" | grep $branche | awk '{print $3}')

                if [ ! -s {$nb_wanted} ] ;
                then
                            nb_ready=$(cat ${fic_tmp_listeSTAF} | wc -l)
                            echo "-------------------------------------------" | tee -a ${fic_tmp_result}
                            echo "Numbers files wanted/ready : $nb_wanted / $nb_ready" | tee -a ${fic_tmp_result}

                else
                         nb_ready=$(cat ${fic_tmp_listeSTAF} | wc -l)
                         echo "-------------------------------------------" | tee -a ${fic_tmp_result}
                         echo "Numbers present files : $nb_ready" | tee -a ${fic_tmp_result}

               fi

$nb_wanted may have a numeric value or not. If it has a numeric value it should do the fisrt part (then). If it has no value it sould goes to the else part.

My problem is I can't deal with the test value command has the script goes each time on the first part (then) even if $nb_wanted has no numeric value...

Thanks for your help.
 

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