ok I want to know how to touch a file and find out that it is greater than 0 then if it is not I want to fail the job other wise I want to success amnd go on. Can anyone help.
Thanks
Shannon Kammer
ok I want to know how to touch a file and find out that it is greater than 0 then if it is not I want to fail the job other wise I want to success amnd go on. Can anyone help.
Thanks
Shannon Kammer
You don't say which shell you are using. I'll go with ksh.
#! /usr/bin/ksh
FILE=/some/file
touch $FILE # if FILE didn't exist, it does now
if [[ ! -s $FILE ]] ; then
echo $FILE is empty
exit 1
fi
# FILE has some data, so we can continue...