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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting copy specific files and count them - not as easy as it seems! Post 302515327 by Yamaha Evans on Tuesday 19th of April 2011 09:51:00 PM
Old 04-19-2011
getting close, but not quite.......
Thanks for the assist! It got me a bit further along.

I ended up with the following:
Code:

xlscnt=`find . -type f -iname '*.xls*' | tee >(cpio -dumpv &outpath) |wc -l`

from a command line, this will copy out xls files, and store the count from wc -l in the variable, xlscnt.

The problem now is, this works from a command line prompt, but it doesn't work in a bash script. What I get in the bash script (named myscript.sh) is the following:
Code:
myscript.sh: command substitution: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `('
myscript.sh: command substitution: line 20: `find . -type f -iname \'*.xls*\'|tee >(cpio -dumpv $outpath)|wc -l'

Line 20 of myscript.sh is as follows:
Code:
xlscnt=`find . -type f -iname '*.xls*'|tee >(cpio -dumpv $outpath)|wc -l`

I want to capture the variable xlscnt for inclusion in a report later.

One step closer.........
Last edited by Franklin52; 04-20-2011 at 03:50 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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NWDIAG(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NWDIAG(1)

NAME

       rackdiag - generate rack-structure-diagram image file from spec-text file.

SYNOPSIS

       rackdiag [options] files

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the rackdiag commands.

       rackdiag is generate sequence-diagram image file from spec-text file.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the Info files.

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit.

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit.

       -a, --antialias
	      Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter.

       -c FILE, --config=FILE
	      read configurations from FILE.

       -o FILE
	      write diagram to FILE.

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	      Output diagram as TYPE format.

SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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