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# 1  
Old 09-17-2012
Test operator
In my script (currently running on Solaris ) I'm testing for zero size with wild character. There are mutilple files exist in the directory.

Code:
if [ -s ${fileformat}.${date}.? ]
then
  filename=`ls -1tr ${fileformat}.${date}.? | tail -1`
else
  ${BATCH_FATAL:-echo} "$0:ERROR:No file found ${source}/${fileformat}.${date}.?"
  exit 1
fi

however when this on Linux it throws an error

Code:
Found kernel 2.6
./extract_opt_price.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments

Last edited by Scott; 09-17-2012 at 03:12 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 09-17-2012
You say that there are multiple files in the directory named by ${source}, but you don't say how many files in that directory match the pattern ${fileformat}.${date}.?. The results you are reporting indicate that either no files or one file match this pattern on your Solaris system, but two or more files match this pattern on your Linux system.

You can verify this by running the command:
Code:
ls ${source}/${fileformat}.${date}.?

on both systems.
# 3  
Old 09-17-2012
Hi Don

result is same on both systems.
# 4  
Old 09-17-2012
That is strange. So, what are the results?
# 5  
Old 09-17-2012
Same shell ? test is builtin, so maybe some differences in the error handling, if your shell is not same.
Main question in this point is as Don asked - what are the ls output ?

ls output include more than one file ? If it's so, then you have too many args.
# 6  
Old 09-17-2012
The glob may expand to more than one, so use a for loop.
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