#!/bin/csh Cshell check find result if else

Question

Goal: Checking find result, if empty echo something, if not echo find result

#!/bin/csh
set mtime = 0;
echo "<i>Title</i>" >> $outputfile
set text=`find start*middle*.txt -mtime $mtime -ls`
echo "$text" >> $outputfile

I have tried the following (all failed) ...

if (-f "$text" ) then
    echo Exists
else
    echo No such file
endif

-

if [[ -n $(find start*middle*.txt -mtime $mtime -ls) ]]
then
 echo "res" >> $outputfile
fi

-

if [[ -n "$text" ]]
then
 echo "res" >> $outputfile
fi

Perhabs ...Just trying out things I found on unix.stackexchange.com — DavidDunham, Apr 01 '20 at 12:39
Is there a reason you need to use `csh`? It's really [not recommended for scripting](http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/). — chepner, Apr 01 '20 at 12:42
Huge company, remote / old servers, won't be updated in the foreseeable future. Maybe I can use Node to call a javascript-script, probably easier to read the directory once and loop through the filesnames and do my magic with jquery... — DavidDunham, Apr 01 '20 at 12:51
BTW, https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt is another essay written as a follow-up to the link chepner gave above. — Charles Duffy, Apr 01 '20 at 17:12

Orion · Answer 1 · 2020-04-01T20:27:56.917

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#!/bin/csh
set outputfile = test
set mtime = 0;
echo "<i>Title</i>" >> $outputfile
set text=`find start*middle*.txt -ls`
if ("$text" != "") then
        echo "exists"
else
        echo "dosn't exist"
endif
echo "$text" >> $outputfile

If you need to use the -mtime option a value of 0 is incorrect. If you want to list files created in the last day you need -mtime -1 and for 2 days -mtime -2

edited Apr 01 '20 at 20:27

answered Apr 01 '20 at 20:12

Orion

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@DavidDunham did you try this solution? – Orion Apr 03 '20 at 08:23

#!/bin/csh Cshell check find result if else

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