Re: Newbie - shell program problem

[Dwivedi Ajay kumar <ajayd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, YL Narayana wrote:
	
	
> --------Program---------
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> function CountMatches {
>  MATCHES = `ls -d $1 2>/dev/null | wc -l`

	There should be no spaces after MATCHES. is
   MATCHES=`ls -d $1 2>/dev/null | wc -l`

>  echo "$MATCHES"
>  if   [ $MATCHES != 0 ]  ; then return 0 ; else return 1 ; fi
> }
> 
> function DispMatches {
>  if MATCHES=`CountMatches "$1"` ; then
>   echo -n "Number of matches for $1: "
>   echo $MATCHES
>  else
>   echo "$1 is not a valid pattern."
>  fi
> }
> 
> DispMatches '/dev/hda*'
> DispMatches '/proc/*'
> DispMatches '/foo/*'
> 

The output on my box after the above change:

Number of matches for /dev/hda*: 17
Number of matches for /proc/*: 103
/foo/* is not a valid pattern

(I don't have a /foo directory :-)

	Bye and Enjoy Life...

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