Steve Youngs wrote:
>
> Okay, I'm trying to get a script to do one of the following:
>
> if [ sizeof(file1) < sizeof(file2)]; then
> cp file2 file3
> fi
>
<snip>
Interesting task. I came up with the following solution, which is not
optimal, because I have a little variable-scoping-problem here:
#!/bin/bash
size1=$(ls -l file1|(read perms num_hd_links user group size rest; \
echo $size) )
size2=$(ls -l file2|(read perms num_hd_links user group size rest; \
echo $size) )
if [ $size1 -gt $size2 ];then
# sizeof(file1) > sizeof(file2)
else
# sizeof(file1) <= sizeof(file2)
fi
Marc
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