Hi Guys.

I am a complete shell scripting newbie with some syntax and commands understanding. I'm more of a win admin. With that said: I need to write a shell script to monitor a directory '/Mon_Dir' for new occurrences of files with .xx extension. Once a new file is detected in the directory, a command 'str_xx -i file.xx' must be executed against that file. This script should be running as a service with 'sleep' statement or as a Cron job.

My understanding is that this shouldn't be much of a challenge for someone with scripting knowledge, which I don't have.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.