Classic mailbox problem. One problem you have is: how do you know the files are really there, as opposed to partly there? Also, after you sftp them out, do you remove them?
Without addressing these problems (above), here's a simple script:
Code:
MAILBOX=some_directory
seq=0
while true; do
let seq=seq+1 # this might be bash specific
if /bin/ls -1 $MAILBOX | grep ^ ; then
# make sure incoming files aren't mixed up with files-to-be-processed
mv $MAILBOX $MAILBOX.$seq
mkdir $MAILBOX
# your function
sftp_this_directory $MAILBOX.$seq
# clean up
rm -rf $MAILBOX.$seq
fi
sleep 300 # wait 5 minutes
done
Last edited by otheus; 08-20-2008 at 12:55 PM..
Reason: sequence fix
Hello,
I am a newbie who is attempting to write a script to monitor a directory for a set of 3 files that I am expecting to get ftp'd. Occasionally, we suspend operations for maintenance etc. but we still get the files so there can be more than 1 set. If there is more than 1 set, I would like... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
We are having important config files in an directory which was accessable by all
/auto/config/Testbed/>ls
config1.intial
config2.intial
config3.inital
often we find that some of the lines are missing in config files, we doubt if some one is removing.
I would like to write... (0 Replies)
Good morning.
I have been attempting to find a way to monitor the capacity of a directory so that when it reaches 80% or higher I can send an event.
I was able to find a script that does this for the whole drive by I can not seem to figure out how to do this for just a single directory.
... (1 Reply)
I'm am looking for a cheap way to trigger a script when a new file is written in a specific directory. AIX 5.3. It is a production system, so no kernel patching (i.e. inotify).
Filemon and audtiing are too expensive.
Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Hello all,
Can anyone please guide / help me in the following task....
I have a directory where some external users will upload pdf files. The filename of these pdf will be of a particular format (<id>-<first name>_<last name>_<some number>.pdf)
I want to make a script such that it takes... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I need to write a directory monitor, i.e. a korn shell script which would
Report changes to the directory contents, like:
added file1,
deleted file2,
updated file3 ,
created subdir (optional)...
There is no specific file pattern.
So far I have written a little script... (1 Reply)
Hi
I am looking for a help in designing a bash script on linux which can do below:-
1) Look in a specific directory for any new files
2) Mail the content of the new file
Appreciate any help
Regards
Neha (5 Replies)
i'm trying to find the most efficient way to monitor specific files in different directories in one go.
/var/log/
/var/app/
/var/db/
each one of these directories can have subdirectories which need to be looked into as well.
I want to find any file in this directory that has the name... (7 Replies)
I need bash script that monitor folders for new pdf files and create xml file for rss feed with newest files on the list. I have some script, but it reports errors.
#!/bin/bash
SYSDIR="/var/www/html/Intranet"
HTTPLINK="http://TYPE.IP.ADDRESS.HERE/pdfs"
FEEDTITLE="Najnoviji dokumenti na... (20 Replies)
Discussion started by: markus1981
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
seq
SEQ(1) User Commands SEQ(1)NAME
seq - print a sequence of numbers
SYNOPSIS
seq [OPTION]... LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST LAST
seq [OPTION]... FIRST INCREMENT LAST
DESCRIPTION
Print numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT.
-f, --format=FORMAT
use printf style floating-point FORMAT
-s, --separator=STRING
use STRING to separate numbers (default:
)
-w, --equal-width
equalize width by padding with leading zeroes
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
If FIRST or INCREMENT is omitted, it defaults to 1. That is, an omitted INCREMENT defaults to 1 even when LAST is smaller than FIRST.
FIRST, INCREMENT, and LAST are interpreted as floating point values. INCREMENT is usually positive if FIRST is smaller than LAST, and
INCREMENT is usually negative if FIRST is greater than LAST. FORMAT must be suitable for printing one argument of type `double'; it
defaults to %.PRECf if FIRST, INCREMENT, and LAST are all fixed point decimal numbers with maximum precision PREC, and to %g otherwise.
AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
REPORTING BUGS
Report seq bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report seq translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for seq is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and seq programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'seq invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 SEQ(1)