UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hmm... if I'm reading it correctly, won't that loop cause it to return to the line underneath (each time a file is coppied) and print the progress?

If that is correct, then what modification can be made to it in order to make it print the progress on one line?

Also, `ls -R /u/ttc|wc -l` should work a little better I think

Hmm.. I really should've read more closely.. taking a second look at your program, I don't think any of our solutions so far will work.. cp -r $livecomp $copycomp copies everything in one shot - you're using the -r option, so it's not like you can print a message in each iteration of the loop.. there is no loop!

If you have 3000 files, google's script will perform the cp and mv commands (which affect all 3000 files) 3000 times. And my echo command will only output one dot.

Is your script very long? If not, just post the whole thing; or at least more than you did, since I can't see any matching fi statements to close the if statements.

The script is kinda long and thinking about what you said, maybe the way I'm doing it isn't suitable to do a file count-down... which is a shame really because it would have been very useful... :/