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| yorkyboy 2005-05-06, 6:02 pm |
| Guys im very new to Unix and scripting as a whole, but can anyone tell
me if its posible to create a script that looks at say 4 folders, then
checks which has the least amount of files in, then copy a file to that
folder?.
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| Fletcher Glenn 2005-05-06, 6:02 pm |
| yorkyboy wrote:
> Guys im very new to Unix and scripting as a whole, but can anyone tell
> me if its posible to create a script that looks at say 4 folders, then
> checks which has the least amount of files in, then copy a file to that
> folder?.
>
Sure it's possible. Why don't you show us your approach so far? We'll
then try to help.
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| SM Ryan 2005-05-06, 6:03 pm |
| "yorkyboy" <dean.ward@intouchplc.com> wrote:
# Guys im very new to Unix and scripting as a whole, but can anyone tell
# me if its posible to create a script that looks at say 4 folders, then
# checks which has the least amount of files in, then copy a file to that
# folder?.
You can do something like
target=$(du foldername1 foldername2 ... | sort -n | cut -f 2 | sed '2,$d')
cp file $target
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Haven't you ever heard the customer is always right?
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| yorkyboy 2005-05-11, 2:49 am |
| im trying to create a script that will load ballance 3 devices. Unix is
still very alien to me having only been in this position for 3 months
now. Not to mention the fact that i've been thrown in the deep end.
Anyway so far i've managed to make a script that looks at all 4 devices
and make a report:
ls ~/Desktop/printer1/ ~/Desktop/printer2/ ~/Desktop/printer3/ >
~/Desktop/contents.txt
This gives me:
=A0/Users/Desktop/printer1/:
Job1
Job2
job4
/Users/Desktop/printer2/:
Job1
Job2
Job3
/Users/Desktop/printer3/:
Job1
>From this i'd like to create a script that will now copy a file to the
emptiest folder.
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| Bjorn Reese 2005-05-11, 5:56 pm |
| yorkyboy wrote:
> im trying to create a script that will load ballance 3 devices. Unix is
[...]
> emptiest folder.
Try something like the following script. When you execute the script
you first specify the file name, and then all the directories. E.g.
% yourscriptname yourfile ~/Desktop/printer1/ ~/Desktop/printer2/
~/Desktop/printer3/
You can also hardcode the directory names into the script by
replacing the $* in the for loop with a variable name containing
the directories.
#!/bin/sh
# Usage: yourscriptname file dir1 dir2 ... dirN
FILE=$1
shift
CURRENT_COUNT=99999
CURRENT_DIR=""
for DIR in $*; do
COUNT=`ls -1 $DIR | wc -l`
if [ $COUNT -lt $CURRENT_COUNT ]; then
CURRENT_COUNT=$COUNT
CURRENT_DIR=$DIR
fi
done
if [ -n $CURRENT_DIR ]; then
cp $FILE $CURRENT_DIR
fi
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