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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check Directory for files & Email Post 302967757 by Peasant on Sunday 28th of February 2016 02:52:35 AM
Old 02-28-2016
file2 variable will expand to multiple values (file names from directory specified)

It cannot be used in if [ -f $file2 ] .. , the error will be to many arguments (it expects one not a list of files).

I cannot be sure about the exact requirement from your post..
Code:
file2=/directory/file/* # lets create a variable which contains all the files in a directory.
file=/usr/local/mailfile.txt


if [ -f ${file2} ]; # if a file exists (this will work only if a one file is a file2 directory)
 then
  ls -la $file2 > $file # list all the files into a txt file  ? You could do these without any variables or conditions ...
fi
....

So the entire code can be :
Code:
ls -al /directory/file/*  > ${file}.txt
if [ -s ${file}.txt ]; then # if ls output gave something to file.txt (there are files)
... mail or whatever
else
printf "%s\n" "Directory is empty, will do nothing"
fi

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