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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers File renames with timestamp urgent Post 302157389 by Smiling Dragon on Thursday 10th of January 2008 08:51:09 PM
Old 01-10-2008
To make something run continuously, use a while loop with a sleep to prevent it using all your cpu:
Code:
while true
do
   <whatever>
   sleep 300 # five minutes
done

To look for new files, I would propose that you specify to the script an expression that will math the new files but not the ones with the timestamp. That way it won't need to keep a running history.
It look like anything ending in '.xml' would do?

If so, the fragment to decide what files need to have a timestamp appended would look like this:
Code:
ls -1 *.xml 2> /dev/null | while read filename
do
  mv $filename ${filename}_${timestamp}
done

put it all together and you have a solution
 

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