Re: Files not found


"John" <nyrinwi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Leslie Rhorer wrote:
"John" <nyrinwi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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files=$(find ./ -cmin -5 -print)

or if you prefer an array...

files=($(find ./ -cmin -5 -print))

You can then take whatever action you like; e.g.

if [ ${#files} -eq 0 ]; then ... # non array

I tried this, and it doesn't work, either. It gives me an error, saying:

./Videoscribe: line 23: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'

Line 23 is the if [ ${#files} -eq 0 ] statement.

Then it says:

./Videoscribe: line 33: syntax error: unexpected end of file

The script Videoscribe only has 32 lines.

If I remove the if [ ${#files} -eq 0 ]; then ... fi section, the errors
disappear.

Other than as a comment delimiter, I am not familiar with the use of #
within an evaluation expression. What does it do?
Sounds like your cron job is running with strict Bourne shell
compatibility, so you're not getting Bash extensions.

${#var} gives the length of a variable in chars. It's a Bash feature.

${#var[@]} gives the length of an array - also a Bash feature.


Make sure your script begins with #!/bin/sh, or #!/bin/bash

I never said it was a cron script, but more to the point the script does
begin with #!/bin/bash.

The problem was parentheses vs. braces. I couldn't tell the characters in
your script line were braces, not parentheses. (My eyes are getting a bit
old.) A cut and paste would have prevented the error, but unfortunately the
Linux system doesn't have a news reader configured, so I was copying the
text by hand. Once I changed if [ $(#files) -eq 0 ]; to if [ ${#files} -eq
0 ]; it all worked.



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