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[Solved] Check for a file and keep waiting for 30 mins
Hi All!


I want to have a shell script that checks for a file in a particular folder and then if the file is not found it should wait for 30 minutes. Again check for the file, if it FOUND then successfuly exit the shell script stating the file is found. Else it should continue to wait.



Scenario:

> data/source

if a.txt is not found in data/source folder then wait for 30 minutes and then check again the folder data/source

if a.txt is found in data/source folder then exit the script stating that file found
 
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