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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Check that at least one file exists in the directory. Post 303039567 by Rajesh123 on Wednesday 9th of October 2019 02:39:24 PM
Old 10-09-2019
Check the at least one file exists in the directory
Below code is doing file validation properly but returning error after completion second loop. error "file does not existing". my requirement is to check only once if the file exists then it should delete data from table and enter in to the second do loop and print the file names then exit without any error. if there is no single file exists in the directory then should give error.
abc_234.dat abc _123.dat

Code:
INPUTDIR=/path/with/files
for i in $INPUTDIR/abc*.dat
do
        if  [ -f $i ]; then
                echo "delete data from table..."
do
ls -t abc*.dat | sort > ABC.lst
cat  ABC.lst | while read line
do
export file1=$line
echo "${file1}"
done
        else
                echo "File does not exist, exiting.."
                exitcd=44
        fi
done
return $exitcd

Last edited by Peasant; 10-09-2019 at 11:31 PM.. Reason: Code tags, use them.
 

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NAME

       kst -- plots scientific data

SYNOPSIS

       kst

       kst    [ -F DATASOURCE ] [ -f STARTFRAME ] [ -n NUMFRAMES ] [ -s FRAMESPERSAMPLE [ -a ] ] kstfile

       kst    datasource [ -f STARTFRAME ] [ -n NUMFRAMES ] [ -s  FRAMESPERSAMPLE [ -a ] ] [ -P PLOTNAME ] [ -A] [ -d ] [ -l ] [ -b ] [ -x FIELD ]
	      [ -e FIELD ] [ -r RATE ] [ -y FIELD ] [ -p FIELD ] [ -h FIELD ] [ -z FIELD ] [ --png filename ] [ --print filename [ --landscape |
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DESCRIPTION

       kst is a graphical data plotting tool, which includes the ability to plot live data (contiuously update the plot as new data becomes avail-
       able).

       kst may be run entirely from within its GUI, in which case no command line arguments are needed.  kst has a powerful wizard for easily set-
       ting up new plots.

       In the second invocation, kst loads pre-saved plot specifications from the file kstfile and optionally may override some of the settings in
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       In the third invocation, kst displays plots of the data as directed in the default manner.  Additional datasources may be specified on  the
       command	line  with  options for that datasource following it.  Command line options generally apply to all subsequent options unless later
       overridden.

OPTIONS

       -A     plot all curves in separate plots

       -a     average frames (simple mean) when plotting with -s.

       --A4   use A4 sized paper for printing.	Requires --print.

       -b     plot as bargraphs.

       -d     use points when plotting curves.

       -e FIELD
	      use FIELD as the magnitude of error bars applied to the next plot.

       -F datasource
	      override the datasource indicated in the kstfile and instead use datasource.

       -f STARTFRAME
	      begin plotting at STARTFRAME frames into the data.  Set to -1 to start at NUMFRAMES from the end of the data.

       -h FIELD
	      plot FIELD as a histogram.

       -l     use lines when plotting curves.

       --landscape
	      use landscape orientation for printing.  Requires --print.  --Letter use US Letter sized paper for printing.  Requires --print.

       -n NUMFRAMES
	      plot at most NUMFRAMES frames of data.  Set to -1 to indicate all of the data.

       -P PLOTNAME
	      plot all plots in the plot named PLOTNAME.

       -p FIELD
	      plot FIELD as a power spectrum plot.

       --png filename
	      render to a portable network graphics (png) image with file name filename and quit.

       --portrait
	      use portrait orientation for printing.  Requires --print.

       --print filename
	      print the plot to file filename and quit.

       -s FRAMESPERSAMPLE
	      plot every FRAMESPERSAMPLE frames when plotting.

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       -z FIELD
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EXAMPLES

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       Same as above, except only read 20 lines, starting at line 10.
	      kst data.dat -f 10 -n 20 -y 2

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       Read col 1 from data2.dat and col 1 from data.dat
	      kst data.dat -f 10 -n 20 -y 2 data2.dat -y 1

       Same as above, except read 40 lines starting at 30 in data2.dat
	      kst data.dat -f 10 -n 20 -y 2 data2.dat -f 30 -n 40 -y 1

       Specify the X vector and error bars: Plot x = col 1 and Y = col 2 and error flags = col 3 from data.dat
	      kst data.dat -x 1 -e 3 -y 2

       Get the X vector from data1.dat, and the Y vector from data2.dat.
	      kst data1.dat -x 1 data2.dat -y 1

       Placement: Plot column 2 and column 3 in plot P1 and column 4 in plot P2
	      kst data.dat -P P1 -y 2 -y 3 -P P2 -y 4

BUGS

       Please report bugs to either the kst mailing list at kst@kde.org or to the kde bugzilla under the kst product at http://bugs.kde.org/.	If
       you can run kst, you can easily report bugs by selecting Bug Report Wizard from the Help menu.

AUTHOR

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