[Gllug] Re: bash string confusion
Craig Millar
gllug at craigmillar.org
Wed Jul 6 16:12:55 UTC 2005
On 06/07/05 16:42 +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> cd IMAGEDIR
> ls 'file-containing-the-list' | script
>
>
> where script is an executable script-file something like:
>
> while read FILE;
> do
> if [ ! -e $FILE.jpg ]
> then
> echo "$FILE" >> listing-file
> fi
> done
problem solved but i did try this in a test directory which is similar but
much smaller to the images dir. it returns only the string
file-containing-the-list in listing-file
thanks, craig
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