Hello All,

I am using this in a bash script to toss incoming files here and am having a problem with it that I hope someone can shed some light on for me.

---- begin import mailin.sh ---

# process tics
if [ -f fido/inbound/*.tic ]; then
./bbbs btick > /dev/null 2>&1
./bbbs bfilsort > /dev/null 2>&1
./bbbs bfileidx > /dev/null 2>&1
fi

That is a snippit from my script that tosses inbound files. It works fine if there in just one inbound *.tic but if there are more than one tic to be processed it fails and I see this..

scripts/mailin.sh: 14: [: fido/inbound/12345678.tic: unexpected operator

I'm not sure what that means or how to overcome it. Any suggestions?

One last question.. I have a second section like the aboveeeee that looks for *.TIC instead of *.tic. Is there a way to edit the above line to look for both *.tic and *.TIC?

Thanks for any pointers.. :)

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Re: My bash script
By: Alan Ianson to All on Sat Aug 03 2019 12:13 pm

Hello All,
I am using this in a bash script to toss incoming files here and am having a problem with it that I hope someone can shed some light on for me.

if [ -f fido/inbound/*.tic ]; then

there in just one inbound *.tic but if there are more than one tic to be processed it fails and I see this..

Yeah, the reason it would fail, is the shell will expand it. IE: If you have 2 TIC's "a.tic", "b.tic", the command expands to:

: if [ -f fido/inbound/a.tic fido/inbound/b.tic ]; then

Which is a syntax error. There are probably many ways to do this, the way I would do it is:

MOVED=0
for i in fido/inbound/*.tic; do
# If there are no files $i will equal "fido/inbound/*.tic"
if [ "$i" == "fido/inbound/*.tic" ]; then continue; fi

mv $i $destination;
MOVED=1
done

if [ ${MOVED} -eq 1 ]; then
...
fi

One last question.. I have a second section like the aboveeeee that looks for *.TIC instead of *.tic. Is there a way to edit the above line to look for both *.tic and *.TIC?

In my above example, you could have

for i in fido/inbound/*.tic fido/inbound/*.TIC; do

And then have another test for the uppercase *.TIC, that "continues".


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Yeah, the reason it would fail, is the shell will expand it. IE: If you have 2
TIC's "a.tic", "b.tic", the command expands to:

: if [ -f fido/inbound/a.tic fido/inbound/b.tic ]; then

Which is a syntax error. There are probably many ways to do this, the way I would do it is:

OK, I'll need to change that.

In my above example, you could have

for i in fido/inbound/*.tic fido/inbound/*.TIC; do

And then have another test for the uppercase *.TIC, that "continues".

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give that a try.. :)

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