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But a new problem arose, how do i deal with numbers in Bourne Shell (sh)?

numFiles=ls $file | wc -l
echo "Number of files is $numFiles"

The above doesnt work, always displays 0 even though...

ok found problem, it was displaying all the contents of the directory, so i put a -d in the command

I got the following code, it partially works. Can someone tell me why it partially doenst work?

#!/bin/sh
file=$1

if [ `ls -l $file | cut -c1` = 'd' ]
then
echo "File is a directory"...

so what is -a?

So for what you said the cut -c4 means select character 4 from the line abobe?

I want to use this command:
ls -l some_file

in my shell script

But I want to then determine if the file has execute permission for the file owner.

How could i do that?
Is there a way to...

Hi can someone tell me whats wrong with the following:


#!/bin/sh
file1=$1
file2=$2
if [ $# = 2 && -e $file1]
then
if [ -e $file1 ]
then
echo "File 1 is" $file1
...