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10-10-2012

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That is a useless use of ls and useless use of backticks.

You don't have to use ls to check for the existence of a file, that's what if [ -f "$FILENAME" ] is for. -d checks for a directory.

Code:

# Bad things will happen if these dirs don't exist.
# Test first!
[ -d "$sourceftpdir" ] || exit 1
[ -d "$targetdir" ] || exit 1

ls "$sourceftpdir" | egrep "^(ASGTEST|Wings_Test)" | while read FILE
do
        [ -f "$sourceftpdir/$FILE" ] || continue # Ignore things that aren't files
        if ! mv "$sourceftpdir/$FILE" "$targetdir"
        then
                echo "couldn't move $FILE"
                exit 1
        fi

        S=0
        while [ -f "$targetdir/$FILE" ] && [ "$S" -lt 1800 ]
        do
                sleep 10
                let S=S+10
        done

        if [ -f "$targetdir/$FILE" ]
        then
                echo "File $FILE still exists after 30 minutes"
                exit 1
        fi

        echo "File moved from $inputdir to $targetdir and processed"
done

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