filePro/email from Unix script file

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005, Butch Ammon wrote:
>Good afternoon,
>
>I am trying to help my Minneapolis office (Super Radiator Coils) with an idea 
>they have with filePro on SCO Unix.  I made a real simple script file for them 
>to run a filePro report to a /tmp file.  Then immediately email the /tmp file.
>
>But... what happens when the filePro report runs and doesn't happen to select 
>any records?  The script file continues and emails a blank report!
>
>Is there a quick way to kill the script file when the records selected is "0"?

One way that should work with any reasonable shell would be to
test for a file of zero size.  ``test -s'' returns the size of
the file, and should do the trick.

test -s $filename && {
	# do things here.
}

Bill
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