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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Help with UNIX test and wc Command Post 302993575 by dsinco on Saturday 11th of March 2017 10:58:19 AM
Old 03-11-2017
Help with UNIX test and wc Command

I want to xheck if a file exists that uses wildcards as only the partial filename is known using the test Command, and when it exists then output just the number of lines in the file... do not include the filename. Then this output, is it captured by the CommandOutput or the ReturnValue as I want to use this value in another program?

Code:
Code:
 
 test -e /logs/error_logs/*PROC* && wc -l /logs/error_logs/*PROC* || echo No

When a file exists, this will display the #line + filename, i.e.:
650 logs/error_logs/03_2017_PROCESSED.log
I just want 650.

I tried
Code:
 
 test -e /logs/error_logs/*PROC* && wc -l < /logs/error_logs/*PROC* || echo No

But it displays the following message:
Code:
sh: /logs/error_logs/*PROC*: No such file or directory

and returns No.

TIA



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NAME
ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc. SYNOPSIS
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The module is used to replace common UNIX commands. In all cases the functions work from @ARGV rather than taking arguments. This makes them easier to deal with in Makefiles. Call them like this: perl -MExtUtils::Command -e some_command some files to work on and NOT like this: perl -MExtUtils::Command -e 'some_command qw(some files to work on)' For that use Shell::Command. Filenames with * and ? will be glob expanded. FUNCTIONS cat cat file ... Concatenates all files mentioned on command line to STDOUT. eqtime eqtime source destination Sets modified time of destination to that of source. rm_rf rm_rf files or directories ... Removes files and directories - recursively (even if readonly) rm_f rm_f file ... Removes files (even if readonly) touch touch file ... Makes files exist, with current timestamp mv mv source_file destination_file mv source_file source_file destination_dir Moves source to destination. Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory. Returns true if all moves succeeded, false otherwise. cp cp source_file destination_file cp source_file source_file destination_dir Copies sources to the destination. Multiple sources are allowed if destination is an existing directory. Returns true if all copies succeeded, false otherwise. chmod chmod mode files ... Sets UNIX like permissions 'mode' on all the files. e.g. 0666 mkpath mkpath directory ... Creates directories, including any parent directories. test_f test_f file Tests if a file exists. Exits with 0 if it does, 1 if it does not (ie. shell's idea of true and false). test_d test_d directory Tests if a directory exists. Exits with 0 if it does, 1 if it does not (ie. shell's idea of true and false). dos2unix dos2unix files or dirs ... Converts DOS and OS/2 linefeeds to Unix style recursively. SEE ALSO
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