Reading into directory, unix shell script
- by dubya
I am trying to analyze the files/directories inside of a directory using a shell script, for example if the file is readable, if it is a file, if it is a directory, etc. My script is set up to take a directory as input. so I would type 'file.sh directoryname'. However, when I create a for loop to analyze the files, it analyzes the files in my current working directory rather than the specified directory name.
This is my broken code:
file=$1
set mypath = $file
for file in $mypath *
do
if [ -d $file ]
dirCount=`expr $dirCount + 1`
fi
done
Why does this read the working directory instead of the specified directory?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
