Help With a Shell Script

[djfog]

Hi to all Linux Users...I have this script:

#!/bin/bash
read -p "give directory's name: " NAME
cd $NAME
count=$(ls -l | grep '\d\r\w' | wc -l)
N=1
while [ "N" -lt "$count" ]
do 
  echo "give the name of a sub-directory"
  read NAME1
  cd $NAME1
  echo "the number of files in this sub-directory isi:"
  ls -1 | grep '\-\r\w' | wc -l
  cd ..
  N=$[N+1]
done

But I can't get the while loop to work.I want it so that I can find how many files has each sub-directory.Thanks in advance..

[plnprasad]

Print count and see whether you are getting any thing in it or not.

[djfog]

The real problem was that I had actually forgotten to put the $ symbol before N in the while loop condition. The correct looks like this:

while [ $N -lt $count ]