Binary operator expected

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Within my script, there is this following if, then statement. It basically looks for files in a directory that match a certain naming convention (bingofile*.DAT) and are non empty files and moves these files to a diff. directory. The script works okay if there is only one file matching the search criteria, but if there are multiple files, I get the following error:

./testscript2.sh: line 10: [: myfilelocationpath/temp/bingofile208847857.DAT: binary operator expected

my script:

if [ -s /myfilelocationpath/temp/bingofile* ] # is bingofile*.DAT > 0
then
mv /myfilelocationpath/temp/bingofile* /anewdirectory/temp
fi

P.S: I have already tried mmv instead of mv with no luck.

2

thats because /myfilelocationpath/temp/bingofile* will return more than one file name and if can't test all at once.. so its better go for for loop..

3

ahaa....thanks for the info, vidyadhar.

can you give me an example of how I would use the "for loop" with my requirements ?

thanks

4

thanks for the info. Can anybody show me how to write this for loop in my case ?

I tried the following but it didnt work:

for i [ -s /myfilelocation/bingofile*.DAT ] # is bingofile*.DAT > 0
do
mv /myfilelocation/$i /destination_directory
done

thanks

5 
src="/myfilelocation"
dest="/destination_directory"
patt="bingofile*.DAT"

for f in "$src"/$patt; do 
  [ -s "$f" ] && mv "$f" "$dest"
done