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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to check the files existence inside a directory. Post 303006244 by rovf on Monday 30th of October 2017 08:40:48 AM
Old 10-30-2017
It is of course a matter of taste. I personally don't like your solution so much, because it globs for the files twice (in the while- and in the for-loop), which makes maintenance more difficult (think about the case, when the requirement changes and you have to look for files matching, say, *.log, instead of * ... you have to remember to make the change in two places).

Of course if we start thinking in this way, there is much more which could be improved in this script .....
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lsmsad(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 lsmsad(8)

NAME

       lsmsad - Starts the Storage Administrator (SA) daemon

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/lsmsad

DESCRIPTION

       The SA daemon, lsmsad, is a process required by lsmsa, the SA graphical user interface (GUI). The daemon issues commands and obtains system
       information on behalf of SA.

       The SA daemon runs on a Tru64 UNIX system on which LSM is initialized and running.  The SA client runs on any  machine  that  supports  the
       Java Runtime Environment.

       The SA daemon is automatically started at boot time. Under normal conditions, the daemon does not need to be run manually.

       If SA does not start during the boot process, enter:

       /sbin/init.d/lsmsa stop

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RESTRICTIONS

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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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