Shell Programming and Scripting

The non-standard double brackets are not necessary.

Code:

while [ -z "${DIR}" ] || [ ! -d "${DIR}" ]

Hey,

Following is the command to do that: (please take care of the quotes)

echo "Date is : `date +%d` "
Date is : 11


Thanks
Varun Gupta

The quotes make no difference in this case; the error was the space after '+'. Any of these will work:

Code:

echo "Date is : `date +%d` "
echo Date is : `date +%d`
echo "Date is :" `date +%d`
echo 'Date is : '`date +%d`
echo 'Date is : '"`date +%d`"

Thanks for the input guys, Il be working on the file mover in a few days.


Btw, I have a script that deletes directories. I made it so that the user writes the folder that needs to be deleted in the current directory. I even ask a yes/no affirmation.

Now, the problem is that if the directory contains stuff it will give me a beautiful message "Directory not empty" message.

So how the hell do I silence the message that pops out (I checked the man, there's not mkdir silent or something).

If the script notices their is indeed a folder with content in it that it will pop out a message like : "Folder contains stuff ect"

Here's my current bash code:

Code:

clear
echo "---------------"
echo "| 9effacerdir |"
echo "---------------"
echo " "
read -p "Name of file to delete: " choix
echo " "
read -p "Delete? (O/N): " ouinon
if [ -d $choix -a $ouinon = O ]
then
rmdir $choix
echo "<$choix> deleted"
elif [ $ouinon = N ]
then
echo "Destruction of file cancelled."
elif [ ! -d $choix ]
then echo "<$choix> doesn't exist in current directory."
fi
read -sp "Press enter"
echo " "
clear

Anyways, thankks again.

You don't; rmdir will not remove a directory that is not empty. Use rm -rf instead.

Please put code inside [code] tags, not [quote] tags.

Edited my post for CODE tag.

Hopefully Il be able to work on my scripts today. Been doing a lot of HTML and Java hehe

Btw, I don't want my script to be able to delete a whole directory branch. I just want to warn the user that the directory targeted has files in it by popping a message out. (I got others plans for a directory with content in it)

Bumping, I finished the rest of my menu. I got a question on the xclock command:

How can I run an xclock and if a second one is run a message stating there's already one running in the in background will appear.