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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Script for checking the files in a folder Post 302559915 by Corona688 on Wednesday 28th of September 2011 12:09:06 PM
Old 09-28-2011
If you need to worry about MAX_ARGS, you have to use find.

Code:
COUNT=$(find ./folder -name 'GL*.csv' 2> /dev/null | wc -l)

if [ "$COUNT" -gt 0 ]
then
        echo "Found $COUNT files matching pattern"
else
        echo "No files matching pattern"
fi

Last edited by Corona688; 09-28-2011 at 01:24 PM..
 

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