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cool that works, but my program doesnt

the $1 was a file name and all i wanted to know was if it existed or not. but that doest want to work either. but i did learn something and that otherwise...

cheers zazzybob, now it just seams to come up with the error

iip[44]: cut -b54 $1: bad number

i have tried varing the number but that doesnt seam to be a problem if i use it on command line it...

I just need to know how to get one character in a string

i tried
if [[ $# -eq 1 ]] && [[ cut -b54 $1 -ne 'X' ]]

but that didnt seam to work keep coming up that -b5 was unexpected.

i am not...

i=0
while (( i < ${#SC }))
do
set $signofffiles/scan.batchno.${SC[$i]}.03.[0-9]*.signed.off
if [[ $# -eq 1 && -s $1 ]]
then
echo file from server $i is present, file name is $1
...

ok, i have a small question.

just what does

if [[ $# -eq 1 ]] && [[ -s $1 ]]

do? i am a bit new, and its not quite doing what i am askign it to do. i have an array of 5 items (0 -4) but...

cheers ill try that next week, going on holiday and no comp going with me. ill let you know how it goes

Ok, i have a problem and not sure how to tackle this one as of yet.

I will have this job running in the cron every 5 minutes, i need it to check a directory for 5 files. These files are put into a...