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if you use 20 it will touch every 20th file and that's why number of new files are less.
for 20% use [ `expr $N % 5` -eq 0 ].

sorry. the line i gave replaces the ls | while loop. this for loop will give $file a full path, so you can touch the file no matter your working directory.


#!/bash/sh...

What's your system? What's your shell?

N=0

ls /home/user/Desktop | while read FILE
do
[ -f "$FILE" ] || continue # Skip things which aren't files

# % is remainder of...