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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem assigning cmd output to variable then using in IF statement Post 302555339 by dqrgk0 on Wednesday 14th of September 2011 12:56:18 PM
Old 09-14-2011
Corona688,

Thanks! That got the variable to take. I think that takes care of #1.

Can you help shed light on #2 and #3? I'm going to see what I can try (again) to make it work...

This is the error I received while trying to run the updated code. I know it has to do with the value in the $FSIZE because du -b outputs the file bytes and the (path)/name of the file.

Code:
 
+ EXISTINGFILE=/test/inbound/finaltickets.csv
++ du -b /test/inbound/finaltickets.csv
+ size1='364    /test/inbound/finaltickets.csv'
+ FSIZE='364    /test/inbound/finaltickets.csv'
+ echo 364 /test/inbound/finaltickets.csv
364 /test/inbound/finaltickets.csv
+ '[' 364 /test/inbound/finaltickets.csv -lt 220 ']'
/test/inbound/./test_wip.sh: line 10: [: too many arguments
+ [[ -s /test/inbound/finaltickets.csv ]]

---------- Post updated at 11:56 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:46 AM ----------

I guess my challenge with #2 is that I want to always extract only the bytes info (numbers) from the du -b [file] output, but that value can vary in length. Substringing only the byte data is important since I'll be using $FSIZE in the first IF clause...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

getc_putc

getc_putc(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      getc_putc(8)

NAME

       getc_putc - program to test hard drive performance.

SYNOPSIS

       getc_putc [-d dir] [-s size(KiB)] [-m machine-name] [-u uid-to-use:gid-to-use] [-g gid-to-use]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the getc_putc, program.

       This is a simple adjunct to the bonnie++ benchmark.  It is used to test various ways of doing IO one byte at a time, usually you don't need
       to do enough of this for it to be a performance issue for it to matter much which way you do it.  But sometimes it's necessary (for example
       whan parsing IO from a terminal and then launching another process which will take over all IO, such as a simple shell).

       The  real  benefits  of	this are to help settle some arguements about the performance of such things, and to educate novices about how bad
       per-byte IO really is.

OPTIONS

       For getc_putc every option is of the form of a hyphen followed by a letter and then the next parameter contains the value.

       -d     the directory to use for the tests.

       -s     the size of the file for byte IO performance measured in kilobytes.  NB You can specify the size in mega-bytes if you add 'm' to the
	      end of the number.

	      The  default  for  this  test  is to test with a 40MiB file.  Of the file only 1/32 of it will be used for write() and read() system
	      calls (anything else takes too long), and only 1/4 of it will be used for locked getc() and putc().

       -m     name of the machine - for display purposes only.

       -u     user-id to use.  When running as root specify the UID to use for the tests.  It is not recommended to use root,  so  if  you  really
	      want to run as root then use -u root.  Also if you want to specify the group to run as then use the user:group format.  If you spec-
	      ify a user by name but no group then the primary group of that user will be chosen.  If you specify a user by number  and  no  group
	      then the group will be nogroup.

       -g     group-id	to  use.   Same as using :group for the -u parameter, just a different way to specify it for compatibility with other pro-
	      grams.

       -q     quiet mode. If specified then some of the extra informational messages will be suppressed. Also the csv data will be the only output
	      on  standard  out  and the plain text data will be on standard error. This means you can run getc_putc -q >> file.csv to record your
	      csv data.

OUTPUT

       The primary output is plain-text in 80 columns which is designed to fit well when pasted into email and which will work well  with  Braille
       displays.

       The second type of output is CSV (Comma Seperated Values).  This can easily be imported into any spread-sheet or database program.

       For every test the result is a speed in KiB/s.  I do not display the CPU time because it presumably is 99% of the power of a single CPU (or
       something very close to that).

AUTHOR

       This program, it's manual page, and the Debian package were written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.

       The documentation, the Perl scripts, and all the code for testing the creation of thousands of files was written by Russell Coker, but  the
       entire package is under joint copyright with Tim Bray.

SIGNALS

       Handles SIGINT and does a cleanup (which may take some time), a second SIGINT or a SIGQUIT will cause it to immidiately die.

       SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ act like SIGINT.

       Ignores SIGHUP.

AVAILABILITY

       The source is available from http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++ .

       See http://etbe.coker.com.au/category/benchmark for further information.

SEE ALSO

       bonnie++(8), zcav(8)

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