BASH while [ ls "$1/tmp/" | wc -l -ge 3 ]; problem

[John Dangler]

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:50 -0500, dave selby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Stuck on bash, I need to execute a while loop while there are >= 3
> items in a dir. I tried
> 
> while [ ls "$1/tmp/" | wc -l -ge 3 ];
> 
> and I get ./kmotion_hkd.sh: line 33: [: missing `]'
for word in `ls ./`
do
  if [ `ls ./ | wc -l` -ge 3 ]
  then
    quit
  fi
  echo $word
done

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