Bash scripting “[!: Not found” error, and how to write or declare

files = `ls`

Edit:
This is my updated code:

< /p>

#!/bin/sh
files=`ls`
if [$# -ne 1 -o -f $1 ]
then 
 echo "Usage: $0 "
 exit 1
fi
if [! -e $1 ]
then
 echo "$1 not found" 
 exit 1

elif [-d $1 ]
then
cd $1

for f in $files
do< br /> if [! -d "$f" ]
 then
 if [! -s "$f" ]
 then
 rm -r "$f"
 echo "File: $f was removed."
 else
 continue
 fi
fi
done


echo "Name\t\tLinks\t\tOwner\t\tDate"

for f in $files
 do
 find "$f" -type f -printf "%f \t\t %n\t\t %u\t %TH %Tb %TY\ n"
 done
 exit 0
fi

I fixed all the spacing issues and will #! bin/sh changed to #/bin/bash and added quotation marks in "$f". But I still get a lot of errors.

ava@kosh :~/test$./delDir d1 rm:
cannot remove d1': No such file or
directory File: d1 was removed. rm:
cannot removedelDir': No such file
or directory File: delDir was removed.
rm: cannot remove delDir2': No such
file or directory File: delDir2 was
removed. rm: cannot removee1′: No
such file or directory File: e1 was
removed. rm: cannot remove e2': No
such file or directory File: e2 was
removed. rm : cannot removemake_d1′:
No such file or directory File:
make_d1 was removed.
Name\t\tLinks\t\tOwner\t\tDate find:
d1: No such file or directory find:
delDir: No such file or directory
find: delDir2: No such file or
directory find: e1: No such file or
directory find: e2: No such file or
directory find: make_d1: No such file
or directory ne1 2
ava 22 Nov 2009 ne2
2 ava 22 Nov 2009

< /blockquote>

Does anyone know what I did wrong?

Here's my code:

06001

Here are my questions:

1. If I execute the script with something that is NOT an ordinary file
   AND is NOT a directory I want it to
   say “Usage: Filename directory” (see
   line 5). I know I can do this with 2
   if statements but is it possible to
   create an or statement for this in
   bash?

2. < p>When I run the script I keep getting errors like this:

./delDir: 39: [!: not found ./delDir: 39: [ !: not found ./delDir:
39: [!: not found ./delDir: 39: [!:
not found ./delDir: 39: [!: not found
./delDir: 39: [!: not found ./delDir:
39: [!: not found ./delDir: 39: [!:
not found ./delDir: 39: [!: not found
. /delDir: 39: [!: not found Name
Links Owner Date
find: d1: No such file or directory
find: delDir: No such file or
directory find: delDir2: No such file
or directory e1 1
ava 22 Nov 2009 e2< br> 1 ava 22 Nov 2009
find: make_d1: No such file or
directory ne1 2
ava 22 Nov 2009 ne2
2 ava 22 Nov 2009

I believe I got these errors
Because the for loop is the first time I look at the file entered by the user
(the directory it changes) and
can't find it. How can I solve this problem?
3. Can you see more errors?

Another problem is that you do this at the beginning of the script

< pre>files = `ls`

But then you cd to another directory and try to loop $files to delete them-of course this will not work, because you have changed the directory.

Move the ls line after changing the directory.