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yorkyboy	Posted: May 6 2005, 03:50 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 975 Joined: 6-May 05	Guys im very new to unux 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?.

yorkyboy	Posted: May 10 2005, 03:08 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 975 Joined: 6-May 05	Guys 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: /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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Posted: May 10 2005, 04:18 PM

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Here you go...

CODE

# Show contents of script
$ cat /var/tmp/dir_with_fewest_files.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
for DIR in $@
do
FILENUM=`find ${DIR} -type f |wc -l`
echo ${FILENUM} ${DIR}
done |sort -n |head -1 |awk '{print $2}'

# Show contents of directories
$ find /var/tmp/asb/printer1 /var/tmp/asb/printer2 /var/tmp/asb/printer3 -ls
45097 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 oradba dba 512 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer1
45417 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oradba dba 0 May 10 17:08 /var/tmp/asb/printer1/job1
45418 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oradba dba 0 May 10 17:09 /var/tmp/asb/printer1/job2
45426 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oradba dba 0 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer1/job4
61975 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 oradba dba 512 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer2
62325 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oradba dba 0 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer2/job1
62327 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oradba dba 0 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer2/job2
62332 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oradba dba 0 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer2/job3
67617 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 oradba dba 512 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer3
67646 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oradba dba 0 May 10 17:13 /var/tmp/asb/printer3/job1

# Run script with these directories as it's parameters
$ /var/tmp/dir_with_fewest_files.ksh /var/tmp/asb/printer1 /var/tmp/asb/printer2 /var/tmp/asb/printer3
/var/tmp/asb/printer3

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