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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers compariosn troubles... Post 43176 by jagannatha on Wednesday 12th of November 2003 03:54:46 PM
Old 11-12-2003
I have echoed the variable content to the screen to make sure that there is actually a usable variable, which there is.

But still cannot get the script to work.

# Set variable to path
cd $SSM_IN_DIR
fail_path=`pwd`
pwd
# Count the files in the directory
batch_count=`ls -tr | wc -w`
if [[ "${batch_count}" -gt 1 ]]; then

The variable is picking up that there are files in the diretory.
But my IF statement will not compare it the the value 1.

What I am trying to do is, remove files form a directory. After an application failure. This needs to be done before the application can be used again.
 

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pwd

pwd(3tcl)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							 pwd(3tcl)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory

SYNOPSIS

       pwd
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory.

EXAMPLE

       Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external command using exec, but it is important to keep the appli-
       cation usually running in the directory that it was started in (unless the user specifies otherwise) since that minimizes  user	confusion.
       The way to do this is to save the current directory while the external command is being run:
	      set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar]
	      set savedDir [pwd]
	      cd /tmp
	      exec tar -xf $tarFile
	      cd $savedDir

SEE ALSO

       file(3tcl), cd(3tcl), glob(3tcl), filename(3tcl)

KEYWORDS

       working directory

Tcl																	 pwd(3tcl)
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