Your script worked great. Thanks, Patrick
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Lee Brinton wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 08:11:36PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > > > My script doesn't quite work. Could someone tell me what I've done wrong? > > > > The problem is that it displays the file as soon as it has a nonzero > > length. I would like the script to wait until the file is 95 bytes long. > > > > My script: > > > > ----- > > until test -s filename > > do > > sleep 5s > > done > > > > cat filename > > ----- > > > Try this: > MAX=10 > ITER=0 > > BYTES=`wc --bytes filename | awk -- '{print $1}'` > while test $BYTES -lt 95 -a $ITER -lt $MAX > do > sleep 5s > let ITER=ITER+1 > BYTES=`wc --bytes filename | awk -- {print $1}'` > done > > cat filename > -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null