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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Shell script file check throws [: too many arguments Post 303030330 by Dip on Friday 8th of February 2019 06:04:03 AM
Old 02-08-2019
Thanks for your suggestion @Don Cragun.

Actually in my case always there are always some server.log file present with timestamp. So I would always like to check the if statement with timestamp.
I tried after your suggestion like the below:
Code:
filename_time2=$(date --date='yesterday' +%Y-%m-%d)
file=audit.log-$filename_time2*

                if [ -f "$file" ]
                then

                     cp server.log-$filename_time2* ../archive/new
		     exitcode=$?
		     echo "One or more files with timestamp $fiename_time2 copied"
		     exit $exitcode
	         else
		     echo "No server log files present with timestamp $filename_time2"
		     exit 1
	          fi

This is also failed to find the files so the else block is executing.
 

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AMCHECKDUMP(8)						  System Administration Commands					    AMCHECKDUMP(8)

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SYNOPSIS

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