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# 1  
Old 05-23-2012
Count lines and use if then ksh
I try to count number of lines of a data.txt file and then if number of lines is greater than 1 then email me the file.
I could not find what is wrong with my code, hope you can point out the mistake i made

Code:
#! /bin/ksh

count =`cat /from/file/data.txt | wc -l`

if [[ $count -gt 1 ]]; then

mailx -s "Duplicate " myname@somewhere.com < /from/file/data.txt
fi

sabercats:~/tools/cgi-bin> test.ksh
=2 sabercats:~/tool/cgi-bin>

I only see =2 what is this? this is count =`cat /from/file/data.txt | wc -l`

How it got out there and no mail for me?
Thanks
# 2  
Old 05-23-2012
Hi
In the line

Code:
count =`cat /from/file/data.txt | wc -l`

remove the space between count and =.
# 3  
Old 05-23-2012
Further to this you can leave out the cat and the pipe
Code:
count=$(wc -l < /from/file/data.txt)

# 4  
Old 05-23-2012
I do something similar but diferently:

Code:
COUNT=`wc -l $FILE | awk '{print $1}`
if [ ${COUNT} == 1 ]
   then
     mailx -x "Duplicate" myname@somewhere.com < from/file/data.txt 
  fi
done

If you were going to do this inside a directory where you have a bunch of files, you could something similar to this:

Code:
for FILE in `ls *.txt`  # assuming you're only looking at txt files
do
  COUNT=`wc -l $FILE | awk '{print $1}'`
  if [ ${P1} == 1 ]
    then
      mailx statement
  fi
done

# 5  
Old 05-23-2012
Thanks, work great after i remove a space before =
This also look cool, count=$(wc -l < /from/file/data.txt)
Thanks for all of your advice,
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