RE: check file size, extension question???

From: Ron Thomas <rthomas_at_hypercom.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:57:11 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00326CB2.20010612170233@fatcity.com>

If you are using korn shell, then why spawn a new process to do this. Try:

a="somefile.gz"
if [ "$a" != "${a%.gz}" ] ; then

  echo "this is a gz file"
elif [ "$a" != "${a%.z}" ] ; then
  echo "this is a z file"

else
echo "I don't know"
fi

You could also do this...

a="somefile.gz"
SUFFIX=".${a#*\.}"
FILE="${a%$SUFFIX}"
echo "$a $FILE $SUFFIX"

Ron.

                                                                                       
                           
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I will beat Jared to this, What about using Perl?

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Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:58 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi, all

I'm writing some auto backup/refresh script, do you know any command that returns only size or extenstion or a file? (there will be only one file in the directory)

I know awk can return only a part of the output, but somehow I cann't combine awk and ls -l successfully. ls -s returns some size I don't want, I'd like to have size as shown in ls -l.

For the refresh script, I like to check file extension, so if it's in gz, I'll gunzip; if it's Z, I'll uncompress.

Thanks!

Andrea

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