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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Syntax error: Bad for loop variable Post 302583093 by clgz2002 on Monday 19th of December 2011 02:56:46 PM
Old 12-19-2011
WAIT_TIME=300

---------- Post updated at 03:56 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:16 PM ----------

I tried with your loop and it worked.

Code:
#Process files
for file in $FILE_PATH/*.dat
do
	echo "Processing $file ..."
	# take action on each file. f store current file name
	./UFTFTP_SecondScript.sh $file $USERNAME $PASSWORD $SERVER $FILE_PATH $REMOTE_PATH
	echo "Seconds until next upload: $WAIT_TIME"
	#for (( x=0; x<$WAIT_TIME; x++ ))
	x=0
	while [$x -lt $WAIT_TIME];
	do
		echo "Sleeping for $x"
		sleep 1
		x='expr $x + 1'
	done
done

Now the problem is connecting to the ftp.

Code:
+ ftp -n -i
Not connected.
Not connected.
Not connected.
+ echo Seconds until next upload: 300
Seconds until next upload: 300
+ x=0
+ [0 -lt 300]
./UploadFileToFtp.sh: 1: [0: not found

Last edited by Scott; 12-19-2011 at 04:06 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
 

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       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -a, --suffix-length=N
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