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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Shell script file check throws [: too many arguments Post 303030324 by Dip on Friday 8th of February 2019 04:45:24 AM
Old 02-08-2019
Shell script file check throws [: too many arguments
While I am trying to check the filename/s in IF statement of a shell script (RedHat Linux 6) I am getting below error:

File check:

Code:
filename_time2=`date --date='yesterday' +%Y-%m-%d`
cd /location/of/the/files/to/copy

if [ -f server.log-$filename_time2* ]
then
                cp server.log-$filename_time2* ../archive/new
                echo Successfully copied
else
                echo No server log files present with timestamp $filename_time2
fi

Code:
This throws the error -        [: too many argument

Throws error when there are multiple files in the location. But when there is 1 file match in the location it is working fine.

I have already tried with below options :

Code:
if [ -f "server.log-$filename_time2*" ]
if [[ -f "server.log-$filename_time2*" ]]
if [[ -f server.log-$filename_time2* ]]

All the above cases it is not throwing error but it returns FALSE and executing the else block although the file is present in the location with timestamp

Could you please help me how I can use the if condition here to check whether the files are present in the location.

Thanks.
 

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