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Old 05-02-2013
Too Many Arguments Error - shells script
Hi,

I am getting the below error

: [: too many arguments error at the if condition start and when I print the

value of TEST, it displays two values as below
Code:
/home/xyz/out/file1.txt 
/home/xyz/out/file2.txt

Code:
if [ -f $TEST]; then
    mv $TEST $TARGETDIR/    
fi

Tried by enclosing it in double quotes "$TEST", but it doesnt enter into the if condition.

Please help on this.
Last edited by radoulov; 05-02-2013 at 05:26 PM..
# 2  
Old 05-02-2013
Use a for loop to visit each values in variable: TEST
Code:
for file in $TEST
do
        if [ -f "$file" ]
        then
                mv "$file" "${TARGETDIR}/"
        fi
done

# 3  
Old 05-02-2013
Your code says:
Code:
if [ -f $TEST]; then

It should be:
Code:
if [ -f $TEST ]; then

There has to be a space before the ]
# 4  
Old 05-02-2013
Thanks for the Resolution. It worked Smilie
# 5  
Old 05-02-2013
Yes, the [ ] is very picky about having that space there.
 
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