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Old 04-24-2012
[Solved] Touch 10% of the total files inside a folder
I'm trying to make this code below to work but I can't find the way to do the following: I want to make the script to touch only 10% of the total amount of files counted inside the given directory instead of all like it is now.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone can give me a direction on how to make this behavior work.

Many thanks.
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Code:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
FILES=/home/user/Desktop/*

for file in $FILES
do
   touch "$file"
done


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# 2  
Old 04-24-2012
How do you want it to "touch" only 10%, on what criteria?
In the simplest way,you would need to count how many, and compute to get 10%, then use a counter to get out of the loop
# 3  
Old 04-24-2012
What's your system? What's your shell?

Code:
N=0

ls /home/user/Desktop | while read FILE
do
        [ -f "$FILE" ] || continue # Skip things which aren't files

        # % is remainder of division.  0 % 10 is 0.  1 % 10 is 1.  9 % 10 is 9.  10 % 10 is 0.  And so on.
        # The remainder will be zero, every tenth file.
        [ `expr $N % 10` -eq 0 ] && touch "$FILE"

        N=`expr $N + 1` # Add 1 to N
done

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# 4  
Old 04-24-2012
Im using CentOS and Im executing this script with a crontab! MANY THANKS!

---------- Post updated at 01:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:11 PM ----------

Thank you Corona 688! The script works great when executed from the CLI but when I place the "touch.sh" file into the bin folder where the cronjob was grabbing the old script it doesn't make any changes.

Any Idea?

Thanks Again!
# 5  
Old 04-24-2012
The usual culprit with cron, so common its in our FAQ, is that common commands may not be in the PATH. Source /etc/profile, or set a hardcoded PATH you're sure encompasses everything you need.
# 6  
Old 04-24-2012
It's the working directory. Use full paths or change directory.

Code:
for file in "/home/user/Desktop/"*; do
    ...
done

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Corona688
# 7  
Old 04-24-2012
hi neutronscott, thanks for you input but I can't get it to work with your suggestion.

Find the script below provided by Corona688 with the integration of you line.

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crontab below:
Code:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

* * * * * /bin/bash /home/user/bin/touch.sh

touch.sh file below:
Code:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Touch 10% of the files inside a directory
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#!/bash/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

N=0

for file in "/home/user/Desktop/"*;do 
ls /home/user/Desktop | while read FILE
do
        [ -f "$FILE" ] || continue # Skip things which aren't files

        # % is remainder of division.  0 % 10 is 0.  1 % 10 is 1.  9 % 10 is 9.  10 % 10 is 0.  And so on.
        # The remainder will be zero, every tenth file.
        [ `expr $N % 10` -eq 0 ] && touch "$FILE"

        N=`expr $N + 1` # Add 1 to N
done

Last edited by Scott; 04-24-2012 at 05:25 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 
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