Re: Need help creating a script to move multiple files

eatdren_at_ut.com
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:00:54 -0600

Sorry for being ignorant on this, but what are the -e and -a doing in
this instance?

On 06 Dec 2004 07:44:33 +0100, Pascal Bourguignon
<spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

>eatdren@ut.com writes:
>
>> I am needing to create a script that checks a directory to see if
>> certain (around 15) files are present. If so, it needs to move them
>> to a different directory and also create an empty trigger file in the
>> second directory so another process will know that all of the files
>> are there.
>>
>> The problem I am having is that the file names are not consistent,
>> meaning I can't use a wild card to count the files.
>>
>> Does anyone have any examples or help they can give me?
>
>if [ -e f1 -a -e f2 -a -e f3 ... -a -e f15 ] ; then
> do_something
>fi
>
>Does anyone have a more precise specification of what they want?

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