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10-06-2003

Peterh

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Help on Simple shell that look for a file type

Hello Everyone,

I got a simple question. I'm trying to write a shell that looks for a file that arived ftp area and keeps looking until it find it.

Quote:

#!/bin/ksh

for file in /usr/users/ftp/wmdaten/test*

do if [ -f $file ]

then

continue

fi

/usr/local/bin/wmdaten.sh

done

It should look for the file that begins with test and then when it finds it. It starts the wmdaten.sh shell. All i got is that it runs through starts the shell even when test file is not there. It would be great if someone could show what i did wrong.

Thanks Pete

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