Shell Programming and Scripting

Do you have execute permissions on that directory?
Can you post output of

Code:

ls -dl ${AI_LANDING}

This is the output

drwxr-xr-x 14 userid etl 28 May 9 05:05 .

What does this say about the permission

---------- Post updated at 05:15 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:11 AM ----------

Only having trouble while using wildcard. The results are correct when the filename is used.

I believe you need execute permissions on the dir to perform tests on files inside. You have both r and x perms, so that's ok.
Please see my previous post and look at your test file abc<>. It's not empty, or?

Hi,

This code worked and is able to identify files starting with abc (I had made a mistake wid one of the variables while using your code earlier)

So now it is correctly identifying the presence of file..just one small thing

It gives the correct message when file exists, but when it does not exist the following default msg is displayed

* Unix file permissions may prevent an accurate summation of reported data.
landingpath/abc*: No such file or directory

instead of our message which should display

File '$src_filename1' was not found or has not a size greater than zero"

---------- Post updated at 05:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:38 AM ----------

Filesize is greater than zero. Can u see my latest post..

OK. But that's what it says:

Code:

landingpath/abc*: No such file or directory

If there are no files inside the dir, shell does not expand the asterisk, and so your variable src_filename1 will contain 'landingpath/abc*'. And there is no such file...
just try this:

Code:

$ for i in nonexistingdir* ; do echo $i ; done
nonexistingdir*

That "Unix permissions " warning is odd... but I wouldn't worry about it too much. It says, your numbers will be off, if you are testing files that you can't read.