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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Neil Stone wrote:
However I want to be able to invoke this via cron.. but only if a (or many) file(s) excist in a given directory... and if not, just quit...
You'll find reading "man test" very helpful...
NO_OF_FILES=`ls ${DIRECTORY}/*.eps|wc -l`
if [ $NO_OF_FILES -ge 1 ]; then
# do stuff
fi
Alex.
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