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Old 04-24-2012
[Solved] Touch 10% of the total files inside a folder

I'm trying to make this code below to work but I can't find the way to do the following: I want to make the script to touch only 10% of the total amount of files counted inside the given directory instead of all like it is now.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone can give me a direction on how to make this behavior work.

Many thanks.
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Code:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
FILES=/home/user/Desktop/*

for file in $FILES
do
   touch "$file"
done


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