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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users When a file is created where does unix store the info? Post 302105687 by Create on Sunday 4th of February 2007 12:00:58 AM

02-04-2007

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you are going about this the wrong way..

dont run a job every 2 minutes.. run one script that waits for the file...

Something like this:

Code:

TOTALTIME=0
CANCELTIME= 28800 #1 day almost

cd /whatever/location/file/is
while true
do
        if [ -f whateverfile.file ]
        then
                echo whateverfile.file file found! 
                #INSERT WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO WITH IT HERE!!!
                break
        else
                date
                echo whateverfile.file Does Not Exist Yet. Sleeping 120 seconds until whateverfile.file Found.
                sleep 120
                TOTALTIME=`expr $TOTALTIME + $SLEEPTIME`
                if [ "$TOTALTIME" -gt "$CANCELTIME" ]
                then
                        echo The file has not been found in the set amount of time.
                        echo Program Canceling.
                        echo TOTALTIME equals $TOTALTIME
                        echo QUITING
                        exit
                else
                        echo .
                fi
        fi
done

That will run all day long and check for the file every two minutes
if it finds it, set it to do whatever you want, if it doesnt find it, it kills the script. Run this every morning via cron.

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