Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone,

I`ll try to be most clear I can explaining my help request.

I have 2 folders
Folder A-->This folder receives files through FTP constantly
Folder B-->The files from Folder A are unzipped and then processed in Folder B

Sometimes Folder A doesn`t contain all corresponding/relatives files in Folder B,
I mean, in certain moment only a new Computers.gz and a new Scanners.gz are present
in Folder A and the other *.gz are not present, these correspond with Computers_Processed.txt and Scanners_Processed.txt.
in Folder B. Something as follow:

I have a long AWK routine (let say routine B) to process all text files (*.txt) in Folder B independently which
files are present in Folder A. something like this

#++ Routine B ++#

Code:

for each in *.txt;  # Runs on every file in Folder B
do
{AWK routine...}
done

I would like to have a routine (let say routine A) that detects which filename.gz is present
in Folder A in a given moment and say over which filename_Processed.txt execute AWK routine.

I mean, routine A will get the list of elements for the selective "for each" loop.

# for this example elegible elements to fill the list are Computers_Processed.txt and Scanners_Processed.txt

#++ Routine A++# I imagine would be something like this:

Code:

for each in {Computers_Processed.txt Scanners_Processed.txt}; 
do
{AWK Routine...}
done

Then, comparing the name of files in folder A and B,
how to get the correct list of elements to include in the "for each" statement?

Thanks in advance for any help

Code:

LIST=$(ls FolderA | sed 's/\.gz/_Processed.txt/')
for each in $LIST
...

Hi ctsgnb,

It looks is easiest than I was thinking .

I`ll give a try with this.

Thank you so much.