Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Gurus
I have a recquirement where my loop should work if i have more than 4 listed files in a particular directory.
Like the loop in while should continue checking if the directory has more than 4 files and should exit after there are 4 or more files ; if not more than 4 files it should continue checking the number of files

Need help for achieving this scenario

Code:

cd /export/home/e299821/rohan
linecount=`ls -ltr | wc -l`
a=0
echo $linecount
echo $a
while [[ $a = 0 ]]
do
if [ $linecount -gt 3 ]
then
echo $lineocunt
a=`expr $a + 1`
echo "loop completed"
fi
done

Are you looking for something like this:

Code:

while [ $(ls -1|wc -l) -lt 5 ]
do
        echo 'in loop'
done
echo 'out loop'

this loop shall execute only 4 or max 5 times ... i want that my loop should do the following

varA = 4
varB=8

while [[ varA -ne varB]]
do
check for value of varA till both are equal .
if equal " loop complete " exit
done

r_t_1601, I couldnt understand your requirement. You want a while loop to poll in a directory to check if the folder has more than 4 files and if yes the loop.

Isnt my code doing that?

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The while condition will compare, why you need both if and while?