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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Question about a basic shell script: How to make sure it receives only one input? Post 302577392 by balajesuri on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 02:40:46 AM
Old 11-29-2011
The below script will check if the parameters entered are more than 1 and if they're directories (files and non existing directories will be skipped). The sum of sizes of directory will be the output of the program. Is this what you're looking for?
Code:
#! /bin/bash

if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
    echo "No parameters. Exiting."
    exit
fi

sum=0
for i in $@
do
    if [ -d $i ]
    then
        sum=$(($sum + `du $i | awk '{print $1}'`))
    else
        continue
    fi
done

echo $sum

 

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