Re: [LUG] Checking size of file and running command depending on size

["Robin Cornelius" <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/19/07, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to write a bash script to check if a file is larger than a
> certain size (say 15KB) and if it isn't to run another command.
>

Parse the output of ls -l, heres a quick probably crappy inefficient hack :-


#!/bin/bash
file=$1

line=$(ls $file -l)
x=0

for i in $line; do
eval "fields${x}=\"$i\""
x=$((x+1))
done

size=$fields4

if [ $size -gt 1000000 ]; then
echo "Thats a big file!"
else
echo "Thats not so big!"
fi

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