Shell Programming and Scripting

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no. its a variable, with the path to the real blacklist file. created by you.
one file per line. full path.
as i said. is a variable i create. so next time i use it, i have to tell bash i want the variable and not the literal text.
$file contains one line, that has been erad from the file. as i explain below
means that im redirecting the file (wich full path is holded in the variable $blacklist) to the while.
i this case, the "read" command will read one line at a time. and execute the while loop, until it reaschs EOF

this documents is perfect for people starting with bash scripting
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide


and pls dont sent me pms with questions. specially if you posted the same in here

ok
my last question is:

How can I modify the script so that it will track the size of the directory it is creating and stop and create a
new directory when the size is some value

if you are worried about this script filling up some disc, then you are in serious problems.
even if it had to process hundreds of files the text files wont go over a few kbs
you have to star talking about thousands of files to get something like 1mb
actually. i did some tests.

if your script encoutnered arround 5thousand files to be moved (that implies temporal files containig the body of the mail to have 5thousand lines)
and each line beein 76 chars long (wich is several subfolders long)
the temporal folder would be still under 400k

but, if youw ant to keep track of how much a folder or file is worth in kb, i suggest you to search the forums.
i know there must be at least 5 similar quesiotns on the last week

ok broli thanks for ur help.
I will search the forum

hi again broli
I tested and corrected some syntax, but still not working.
Even echo doesnt work inside the 2nd while loop

#!/bin/sh
days=10
temporal_folder=/tmp/`basename $0`-$$
blacklist=/home/xcv.txt
mkdir $temporal_folder

find /home -type f -atime +$days | \
while read file
do
while read line
do
echo 12345
done < $blacklist #black list
done #find's output

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No output
but
12345 must have been shown

use the code tags, pretty pls ? pretty pretty pls?
im here helping you as good friends, so as a friend, can you pls use the code tags?

as to why the the iner echo dosnt work, the frist thing that comes to my mind is, one (or non) of the loops are executing.

put a "set -x" at the begining of the script and execute it.
that will enable the very verbose debug output.
you can see there then what loop is failing, or if its something else too