I am writing a script to copy files that contains a while loop to compare files that will do a cp -p until the filesizes are equal. I am getting a strange error though when the script gets to executing the while loop.
here is my code:
Code:
#/usr/bin/csh
#create the filename
echo "What is the name of the file you want created?"
set filename =<
touch $filename
#for some reason i had to touch the file 2 times to create it
touch $filename
#echo the filesize to make sure its 0 and that it was created
ls -l $filename | awk '{print $5}'
#ask the user what file they want copied
echo "what file do you want copied?"
set filecopy =<
#ensure the filesize to be copied named as filecopy
ls -l $filecopy | awk '{print $5}'
while ["$filename" ne "filecopy"]
do cp -p $filecopy $filename
until "$filename" = "$filecopy"
endwhile
#do some math to give the user some sort of idea how far along we are
#to be implemented later
end
the error i get is missing ]
i have tried several different whiles, like this [while foo do something] and [[while foo do something ]] and quotes, no quotes around the variables as well as tick marks...
so here are my questions: 1. if i just used a file to compare against, is it possible that the while operation is messing up there? 2. i used the solaris scripting book and it said two brackets and quotes.
whatever assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, i found another error so i will re write it in the korn shell. I was also wanting to change it so that i am putting the cp -p in the background and performing some math operations to let the user know that their copy is still in progress.
and yes, it was not a direct copy and paste, so the errors that you all found were definitely errors.
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