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v1shnu
v1shnu

Reputation: 2231

Run ls -lrt and use the file

I want to get the latest file in a directory using the ls -lrt command and store it in a variable and then run the rest of the code based on it.

This is my snippet:

LATEST_FILE=`ls -rt $INPUT_LOCATION/somefile*.utf.gz | tail -1`

**{I want to check if Latest file is valid. If Yes proceed further, if not exit}**

python mycode.py $LATEST_FILE

I tried this:

if [$LATEST_FILE = ""]
then
    echo "FIle does not exists"
    exit 0
fi

This works fine if the file is not present. But if the file is present, then it throws this error:

./script.sh[5]: [somefile123.utf.gz: not found [No such file or directory]

Please help me with this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 463

Answers (1)

Manuel Barbe
Manuel Barbe

Reputation: 2164

You are missing two spaces and quotation marks:

if [ "$LATEST_FILE" = "" ]

Upvotes: 1

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