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Old 10-10-2012
Question while loop inside a for loop

Hi, I am a newbie and would like to create a shell script that will move one file at a time from one path to another path in the same server. However, the next file should wait until the first file gets deleted by an application.

I tried creating the script but right after the first file has been moved the script ends. It did not move the 2nd file.

Here is the script :

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "// *  CHECKING if with file from HOCDT01            "
cd $sourceftpdir
for loopfile in `ls ASGTEST* Wings_Test*`
do
 mv -f $loopfile $targetdir/.
       if [ $? -eq 0 ]
           then
             echo "// * "
             echo "// *     $loopfile MOVED to $targetdir  " `date`
           else
             ret=99
             echo "// *      $loopfile Files not moved " `date`
             exit $ret
       fi
######################################################################
# Check file                                                         #
######################################################################
echo "This is the filename $loopfile"
loop_counter=1
while  [  "$loop_counter" -lt 6 ]
do
   cd $targetdir
   ls $loopfile 
   ret=$?
  if [ $ret -eq 0 ]
  then
    echo " NOT READY FOR NEXT STEP - Loop Counter : $loop_counter"
    if [  "$loop_counter" -eq 5 ]
    then
     ret=20
     echo " Mode Checking exceeded 30 minutes"
     exit $ret
    else
     sleep 300
    fi
  else
         echo "//***************************************"
         echo "//* File taken by application"
         loop_counter=6
  fi
  loop_counter=`expr $loop_counter + 1`
done
done


Help needed. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Corona688; 10-10-2012 at 02:15 PM..
# 2  
Old 10-10-2012
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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