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I would like to detect when the transfer of a large amount of files is completed. I would like to accomplish this by detecting the size of the folder with a time delay.

Below is what I have done,

 #!/bin/bash

firstSize= du -s /Users/test/Desktop/folder | cut -f1

sleep 3
newSize= du -s /Users/test/Desktop/folder | cut -f1


until [ $firstSize -eq $newSize ]
do
 firstSize=$newSize
 sleep 3
 newSize= du -s /Users/test/Desktop/folder | cut -f1

done

echo 'Done'

The until loop is not working because even when the firstSize and the newSize are not equal the loop completes. I am not familiar with writing Bash scripts so I am just making mistakes. This loop is ported over from an applescript I had wrote for the same purpose but I need something more reliable.

You messed the commands syntax. The script should look like:

#!/bin/sh -
firstSize=$(du -s /Users/test/Desktop/folder | cut -f1)
until
 sleep 3
 newSize=$(du -s /Users/test/Desktop/folder | cut -f1)
 [ "$firstSize" -eq "$newSize" ]
do
 firstSize=$newSize
done
echo 'Done'