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Reborg,

I am sorry for that!!! I got no answer so thought that new thread may incerase people viewing.

Anyway can you help me with this please?

Actually that exactly the reason that it is againts the rules of these forums.

However try this:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
dir=/biddf/ab6498/dev/ctl
export dir
set -x 
myfilepattern=$@
integer filecount=0
for file in $myfilepattern_???_$(date +%Y%m%d) ; do
filecount=$filecount+1
done

if (( $filecount == 10 )); then
print "success"
exit 0
else
print "failure"
exit 1
fi

Reborg,

I bow to you completely. You are great. It's working great man.

I will learn from this thread a lot. I will be active member from now on.

Once again thank you very much.

Hi,

I have a problem with the script below. Basically it checks whether there is any file present with the name CARE01_DLY present for today's date in the directory /biddf/ab6498/dev/ctl and if the count =1 it says success otherwise error. But it doesn't seem to take the todays date file but checking if the file is present and saying success if the file is present with out checking for todays date. But i want the script to check for todays file only and if found it should through success otherwise error. The name of the file is sent as an argument to the script.

here is the output: The script is called like this script3.ksh BARE02_DLY

There is no file with this name for today but it's saying success.

Please help.

I found two problem in your script

$myfilepattern_???_$(date +%Y%m%d) is interpreted by the shell as ${myfilepattern_}???_$(date +%Y%m%d).
You must code like this : ${myfilepattern}_???_$(date +%Y%m%d)


The for statement returns the pattern itself if no file are found.
You must test for that pattern.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
dir=/biddf/ab6498/dev/ctl
export dir
set -x 
myfilepattern=$@
fullpattern=${my_filepattern}_???_$(date +%Y%m%d)
integer filecount=0
for file in $fullpattern ; do
   [ "$file" != "$fullpattern"] && filecount=$filecount+1
done

if (( $filecount == 10 )); then
print "success"
exit 0
else
print "failure"
exit 1
fi

Jean-Pierre.

Jean,

Thanks for the changes. But the script is still producing wrong result. There are 2 files with todays date in the directory and still it says failure. I think the main problem is pattern matching is is complaring like this:

CARE01_DLY_AUS_20060724 != CARE01_DLY_???_20060724 and saying no match. So please suggest.

Please see output: