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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Count number of files and use result as variable Post 302537033 by jimbojames on Thursday 7th of July 2011 02:02:45 AM
Old 07-07-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
In your statement, you mentioned "I would like to exit the script at this point in time if the value is greater than 1"

But you are checking for > 0 in condition

replace your if condition as below and let me know the output

Code:
 
if [ $numfiles -gt 0 ]
then
echo "$numfiles"
     echo "There are "$numfiles" in the <PATH> directory. Transfer has been stopped."
else
echo "$numfiles"
fi

Thanks for your help. I have replaced the if statement an re ranit. It has returned the following:
Quote:

1
in the <PATH> directory. Transfer has been stopped.
 

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