Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I wrote a script a long time ago for resizing pictures uploaded to a
> certain directory on my server box.  The script was supposed to check to
> see if any JPG files in the directory had not been resized, and if they
> hadn't, it was supposed to resize them.  It did some other stuff, but
> that was the important thing.  It worked fine until the recent bash
> upgrade and now it gives me an error.  Here is the script:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat system/resizepics
> #!/bin/bash
> OLD_DIR=$PWD
> cd /home/michael/unfiledPics
> 
> if [ ! -d current ]; then
>    mkdir -p current/mini
> fi
> 
> if [ ! `ls -l | wc -l` -le 2 ]; then
>    for x in *.JPG; do
>       if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then
>          convert "$x" -thumbnail 200x200 -verbose current/mini/mini-"$x"
>          convert "$x" -thumbnail 640x480 -verbose current/"$x";
>       fi
>    done
> fi
> 
> 
> if [ `ls -l | wc -l` -ge 12 ]; then
>    today=`date '+%m%d%y'`
>    mv current $today
>    mv $today /home/michael/webspace/html/camera
>    mkdir -p /home/michael/unfiledPics/current/mini
>    rm /home/michael/unfiledPics/*.JPG
> fi
> 
> cd $OLD_DIR
> 
> As I said, before the bash upgrade this worked perfectly.  Now, when I
> try to run it, I get this:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ system/resizepics
> system/resizepics: line 11: [: too many arguments
> system/resizepics: line 11: [: too many arguments
> 
> 
> The error is printed twice because there are two .JPG being checked, but
> I'm not sure why the error is occurring in the first place.  Line 11
> says:
> 
> if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then
> 
> This used to mean "if a file named "current/<whatever $x is>" does not
> exist, then execute the following block", but it keeps tripping on this
> line.  Was the -e switch deprecated or something?  What should it be?
> If it matters, my /bin/bash version is
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i586-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> Please help!

I'm not sure myself, but a better place to ask might be freenode's #bash

;)

Good luck

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