[Gllug] Shell scripts

[Jonathan Dye]

Hi,

I have a script that removes a load of files from a directory tree and then
copies a load of files in to replace the removed ones (from several
sources).  What I want to do is provide some sort of progress information
and I thought I could do this by getting a list of the files that are going
to be deleted and then deleting them one at a time and calculating the
percentage of files deleted.
This seems like a horrible idea as it would be spawning lots of processes so
does anyone have any other suggestions?
Also, I'm using find to list the files but I can't get the splitting to work
correctly:

FILES=$(find <mypath> <criteria>)
echo ${FILES[0]}
echo ${FILES[1]}
echo ${#FILES[@]}

shows a list of all files in ${FILES[0]} and none in ${FILES[1]}, while
${FILES[@]} is 1

JD

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