Hello, We just started on bash scripting in my college course, the problem is we're only dong 3 days on it. Our project for my class is to "Write a bash script that takes an ordinary file as an argument and removes the file if its size is zero. Otherwise, the script displays file's name, size, number of hard links, owner and modify date (in this order) on one line. Your script must do appropriate error checking." I've tried multiple ways of doing it by usin if then else statements, but I keep gettings errors, like integer expected, unexptected token. Anybody know how a script like this would be written? Any help would be appreciated.

unexpected token etc comes often, when u dont have a whitespace between parentheses if [this is true]; then..........<== WRONG if [ this is true ]; then........<== RIGHT post what youve tried and i will try to help you.

What would the actuall code look like? I tried starting from scratch and now I cant get it to work at all. #!/bin/bash if [ -f "$1" ] then filename="$1" set $(ls -il $filename) filesize="$6" hardlinks="$3" owner="$4" moddate="$7" if [ "$filsize" == 0 ] then rm -r "$filename" echo "$filename size was $filesize and was removed" exit 0 else echo "File Hard Links Owner Modified Date" echo echo "$filename $hardlinks $owner $moddate" exit 1 fi exit 2 fi

this script works :)) u just have a type'o: if [ "$filsize" == 0 ] should be if [ "$filesize" == 0 ] :))

I get this error when I try to run it :p : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I've fixed the script, thanks for all your help :D