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Old 08-23-2011
Conditional IF statement with a wildcard
I'm trying to create a shell script that will check for new files and or folders and if it exist then copy them to a different directory.

Does anyone have a idea?



Code:
if [ -f /home/upgrade/hex-code/*];
then
    echo "Copying files from the Upgrade Server"
    cp -Ruavp /home/upgrade/hex-code/* /home/bed_mfg1/hex-code/
else
    echo "No new files to copy"
fi

# 2  
Old 08-23-2011
Can you use a leading character of the file name? For example, the -f works (at least in ksh93 on Ubuntu) if you have files named file1, file2, etc. in your directory, and you look for /home/upgrade/hex-code/f*
# 3  
Old 08-23-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by g.pi
Can you use a leading character of the file name? For example, the -f works (at least in ksh93 on Ubuntu) if you have files named file1, file2, etc. in your directory, and you look for /home/upgrade/hex-code/f*
I wish it was that simple. These are log file from diffrent sources.
# 4  
Old 08-23-2011
You can't cram more than one string into a -f, so you can't do this in one step...

Perhaps something like this:

Code:
set -- /path/to/*

if [ -e "$1" ]
then
        echo "Files in /path/to/"
else
        echo "No files in /path/to"
fi

This replaces your $1 $2 ... parameters with files, though.
Last edited by Corona688; 08-23-2011 at 06:26 PM..
# 5  
Old 08-23-2011
Here is another way to do this, but Carona688's solution is more efficient.
Code:
num_files=$(ls ~/tmp/ | grep -v "total" | wc -l); if [ $num_files -gt 0 ]; then echo "found files"; else echo "no files"; fi

# 6  
Old 08-23-2011
rather than reinvent the wheel use a utility like rsync
# 7  
Old 08-23-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by frank_rizzo
rather than reinvent the wheel use a utility like rsync

Thanks, im surprised i didnt think of that
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