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Old 05-24-2015
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Originally Posted by Flavius
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file_total=`ls -1 $1 | wc -l | tr -d " "`


First, you don't need -1 when the output of ls is not going to a terminal.

Second, the command will fail if $1 contains whitespace or other pathological characters.

Third, there is no need for tr; it has been a long time since wc's output was preceded by a space.
And if it were, you could remove it with:
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file_total=$(( $(ls "$1" | wc -l) ))

Or:

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file_total=$(ls "$1" | wc -l)
file_total=${file_total// /}

But you can do it without any external commands:

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file_list=( "$1"/* )
file_total=${#file_list[@]}

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CDR_count=0
CDR_match=0
echo > CDR.tmp

for _file in `ls -1 $1`


See the first 2 comments above.

It can fail even if you quote $1.
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  file_count=`expr $file_count + 1`


(( ++file_count ))
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     cat $_file | while read _line


UUOC and unquoted variable
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     do

             if [ "$_line" = "CDRCCN.ChargingDataOutputRecord.onlineCreditControlRecord" ]; then

                CDR_count=`expr $CDR_count + 1`


(( ++CDR_count ))
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                echo "Files processed: $file_count / $file_total       CDRs match : $CDR_match / $CDR_count"

                if [ "`grep "servedAccount : '$2'" CDR.tmp`" != "" ]; then


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if grep "servedAccount : '$2'" CDR.tmp; then

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                   CDR_match=`expr $CDR_match + 1`


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(( ++CDR_match ))

Also, if you want to retain the value of variables set in the last process in a pipeline, use:
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shopt -s lastpipe

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# 9  
Old 05-25-2015
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Originally Posted by cfajohnson
[..]
Code:
file_total=$(( $(ls "$1" | wc -l) ))

Always a pleasure to read your posts! Nice way of removing spaces by using arithmetic expansion.
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[..]
But you can do it without any external commands:

Code:
file_list=( "$1"/* )
file_total=${#file_list[@]}

[..]
Other benefits of this method are that it also correctly counts file names that contain newlines (whereas ls|wc -l does not) and that there are no command line length limitations..
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